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Early Tracheostomy After Cardiac Surgery Has Benefits When patients needed prolonged mechanical ventilation after heart surgery, earlier tracheostomy improved their outcomes without raising their risk of mediastinitis.
Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2012
Outcomes Similar With On-Pump or Off-Pump CABG in Elderly A Danish study found no significant difference in outcomes between on-pump and off-pump procedures in elderly patients with ischemic heart disease.
Reuters Health Information, May 9, 2012

Heart Transplant Waiting List Priorities May Need Adjustment
Reuters Health Information, May 7, 2012
AATS Lives, Money Saved by Protocol-Guided Transfusion Use
Heartwire, May 3, 2012
AATS Success up as LA Size Declines for RF Ablation at Surgery
Heartwire, May 1, 2012
Allomap Transplant-Rejection Test Works in Europe: CARGO 2
Heartwire, April 25, 2012

Cardiac Surgeries Perspectives

Developmental Assessment of the Newborn What is the impact of cardiac surgery on infant development?
Medscape Pediatrics, April 30, 2012
Relationship Between Surgery Outcomes and Hospital Costs? Commentary on a study on the relationship between the quality of surgery care and cost of inpatient surgery, published in January 2012 in Annals of Surgery.
Medscape General Surgery, March 7, 2012

Latest on LVADs: What All Docs Need to Know
Medscape Cardiology, December 19, 2011
2011 Top Game Changers in Cardiology
Medscape Cardiology, November 23, 2011
Does Better Adherence Mean Better Outcomes? AHA 2011 Day 2
Medscape Cardiology, November 15, 2011
Devices for Heart Failure From TCT 2011: Stay Updated
Medscape Cardiology, November 11, 2011

Cardiac Surgeries Journal Articles

Patent Foramen Ovale: The Known and the To Be Known
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 17, 2012
The Intra-aortic Balloon Pump in High-risk PCI
Interventional Cardiology, May 14, 2012
Long-term Outcomes Following Infection of Cardiac Devices
Heart, May 14, 2012
Remote Magnetic Catheter Navigation in Arrhythmia Ablation
California Technology Assessment Forum, April 30, 2012
Surgery for Aortic Dissection: What You Need to Know
Faculty of 1000, April 26, 2012

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