Patient-related factors Surgical factors Other factors Advanced age >70 Internal mammary artery dissection Aspiration pneumonia Endocarditis Increased number of bypass grafts CPB >120 min Gastrointestinal bleeding Multiple valve procedures Deep…
Ali Dabbagh, Fardad Esmailian and Sary F. Aranki (eds.)Postoperative Critical Care for Cardiac Surgical Patients201410.1007/978-3-642-40418-4_7 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 7. Cardiovascular Complications and Management After Cardiac Surgery Mahnoosh Foroughi1 and Antonio Hernandez Conte2 (1) Cardiovascular Research Center, Shahid…
Unbalanced and no plasma-adapted solutions Balanced and plasma-adapted solutions Cost of hospital stay/die 1,000 € 1,000 € Cost of FT/die 21 € 30 € CostHS for 3 days (1,000 × 3) = 3,000…
Likely pathogens Recommended regimen Alternative regimen Cardiothoracic surgery Staph epidermidis, Staph aureus, Streptococcus, Corynebacteria, enteric-Gram-negative bacilli Cefazolin 1 g (2 g for patients >60 kg) IV within 60 min…
Fig. 7.1 Color duplex ultrasound image of an internal carotid artery showing calcified plaque where a very dense acoustic signal is registered (arrow) with acoustic shadowing (underneath the arrow) The…
Fig. 6.1 An illustration showing the aortic arch and its branches: (1) brachiocephalic trunk, (2) right subclavian artery, (3) right vertebral artery, (4) right common carotid artery, (5) right external…
is normally 0.55–0.70 (Fig. 46.1) [7]. Fig. 46.1 Hepatic artery waveform. (a) Color Doppler image of porta hepatis demonstrating high flow in the hepatic artery (arrow, HA) adjacent to the…
Classification RAR PSV PST Normal <3.5 <120 cm/s Absent <60% stenosis ≤3.5 >180 cm/s Absent >60% stenosis >3.5 >180 cm/s Present Occlusion N/A N/A N/A Low velocity, low amplitude parenchymal…
Agent Company Gas Shell Approval First generation, nontranspulmonary vascular Free microbubbles Schering Air None Europe Echovist (SHU 454) Air Galactose Second–generation, transpulmonary vascular, short half–life (<5 min) Albunex Molecular biosystems…
Fig. 54.1 (a) 3D gray scale (colorized) image of carotid artery atherosclerotic disease in the distal CCA with a small surface ulceration. (b) Corresponding B-mode (2D) image showing small plaque…
