New data from a study that evaluated the use of nesiritide (recombinant brain-type natriuretic peptide; BNP) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery utilizing ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Mounting evidence indicates that opioid-sparing anesthesia (OSA) decreases opioid-related adverse events.

A new study from Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia warns that patients receiving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for surgery may be at increased long-term risk of heart attacks, ...

The choice of anaesthetic technique in cardiac surgery extends beyond mere sedation, playing a pivotal role in myocardial protection. Both total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) and inhalational ...

Driscoll Children’s Heart Center achieved a 98.7% survival rate over four years. With 698 surgeries performed between January 2021 and December 2024, the program consistently delivered ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart.This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours.Recovery ...

A highly complex cardiac surgery was successfully performed at the Caserta Hospital on a patient suffering from severe combined valvular disease, characterized by severe mitral valve disease ...

Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...