Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

BackgroundIatrogenic type A aortic dissection is a rare complication of surgical and nonsurgical cardiac procedures associated with high morbidity. The purpose this study was to describe the intraoperative incidence, management, outcomes iatrogenic dissections at our institution.MethodsRetrospective review institution’s adult surgery database performed between 2002 2018 identify all repairs. Op...

The aim of article is to give a brief description to the surgical strategies for patients with lone atrial fibrillation without associated cardiac operations, and present the possible indications of on-pump Maze procedures through a mid-sternotomy approach.

From hip and knee replacements to cataract and heart surgery, America’s elderly undergo 20% of all surgical procedures. For a group that comprises only 13% of the US population, this statistic signifies how important it is that we understand the special needs of the elderly as they face the prospect of surgery. As we age, we undergo more surgeries on average, and we have a greater chance of exp...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes of the utilization of operational and surgical medical care inside and outside a metropolitan area over 10 years, analyzing the residential areas of patients and the locations of medical facilities for major cardiovascular surgery. METHODS Data analysis was conducted by classifying the addresses of patients and the l...