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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"heart surgery"”.
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Design of a microcomputer-based open heart surgery patient monitor
A patient monitor device for use during open heart surgery has been designed and constructed. The device uses a VIC 20 microcomputer along with some additional circuitry to monitor 3 separate functions. The first patient variable monitored is the blood flow rate through the extracorporeal blood …
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A retrospective evaluation on the use of Cephalosporins in open-heart surgery
… to use this approach and concentrate an open-heart surgery in which the cephalosporins have been used prophylactically.</p>
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Personalised warfarin dosing in children after congenital heart surgery using the model-based approach
… a PK/PD model, in children after congenital heart surgery and to explore the experience of patients/parents and health care professionals with managing long-term warfarin treatment as well as their experience with the model-based dosing approach. The predictive performance of the PK/PD model …
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Single-Center Experience of Providing Congenital Heart Surgery to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
… is to analyze the demographics of congenital heart disease (CHD) patients from over 50 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) who received care at Frontier Lifeline Hospital (FLL), a specialty cardiac center in Chennai, India, and identify the barriers and limitations they faced. METHODS: …
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Parent’s Post-traumatic Stress before and after their Infant’s Second Palliative Heart Surgery: The PatHS Descriptive Correlational Longitudinal Study
… a functionally single ventricle. This type of heart defect requires three palliative heart surgeries, the first within seven days of birth, the second at 4-6 months, and the third at 2-5 years of age. Parents endure emotional trauma from witnessing their child in life-sustaining care, …
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Effects of duration of selected music as an intervention on postoperative pain in open-heart surgery patients during chair rest on the first postoperative day
… pain and use of pain relief medications in open-heart surgery patients during chair rest on the first postoperative day.</p> <p> This study was conducted using a pretest-posttest experimental design. A convenience sample of 13 open-heart surgery patients from a metropolitan hospital in …
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Risk stratification in cardiac surgery: Algorithms and applications
… predict 30-day and one-year mortality after open-heart surgery, to evaluate if the preoperative risk stratification model EuroSCORE predicts the different components of resource utilization in cardiac surgery, and to systematically evaluate the accuracy and performance of artificial neural …
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Validierung eines neuen Modells zum kompletten kardiopulmonalen Bypass bei der Ratte durch Überprüfung der kognitiven Leistung, des neurologischen Status und des allgemeinen Verhaltens
After a cardiac heart surgery at humans, very often cognitive and neurologic troubles occur. For this reason, it is sensible to establish an animal model describing the effects on cognitive and neurologic functions, as well as the behaviour after a complete cardiopulmonary bypass with a …
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History and Technique of Operation of the Mark G.K. Gibbon Type Pump-Oxygenator
The evolution of heart surgery has been difficult and has spread over centuries. Yet only within the past twenty years have congenital abnormalities of the great vessels been successfully treated surgically. Except for traumatic lesions of the heart, significant sustained progress in the treatment …
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DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT OF HETEROTOPIC TRANSCATHETER TRICUSPID VALVES TO AMELIORATE TRICUSPID REGURGITATION
… are denied of the replacement valve surgery because they are deemed high risk for conventional open heart surgery. The advent of transcatheter technology gives them a new treatment alternative. However, so far, there has been no commercially available transcatheter tricuspid valve. …
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Pulmonary Valve Replacement
… disorders in patients with prior congenital heart surgery. Edwards Sapien 3 valve is a bioprosthesis originally designed for the aortic position but has been used off-label in native right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT). It is currently under clinical trial to get food and drug …
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Early Postoperative Complications in Open Cardiac Surgery. A Current Strategy for Prediction and Risk Stratification // Ранни постоперативни усложнения при отворена сърдечна хирургия – съвременен подход за предикция и стратифициране на риска
Open-heart surgery remains one of the primary methods for treating various cardiovascular diseases. Despite advances in surgical technique, like any surgical intervention, these procedures carry the risk of various complications that determine patient survival and quality of life. Accurate risk …
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Effect of a histidine-tryptophane-ketoglutarate solution on coagulation as measured by a thromboelastogram
… protection during periods of ischemia in heart surgery. It has the advantage of allowing a longer protection and it is especially the preferred cardioplegic solution in complex paediatric heart surgery like transposition of great vessels. This has also been used in organ transplant as a …
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The Role of Rumination, Negative Affect, and Fitness on Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Outcomes following a Discrete Cardiac Event
… event such as a myocardial infarction or open heart surgery, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can have large physical and psychological benefits. This study investigates the role of depression, anxiety, and rumination on CR outcomes including program completion and fitness improvements. Fifty-one …
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Adenosine and its role in cardioplegia : experimental evaluation in the isolated rat heart and in an-vivo primate model
… and ultrastructural recovery in the isolated rat heart and in the in-vivo baboon model during periods of global myocardial ischemia, simulating the clinical situation during open heart surgery. The results obtained in both models show that adenosine improved postischemic hemodynamic function when …
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A multi-channel system for use in cardiac electrophysiologic studies
… patients is performed manually during open heart surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, using a hand-held roving electrode. This manual procedure is slow and tedious, prolonging the operation and the time for which the patient remains on cardiac bypass. A multichannel electrogram acquisition and …
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Multiple Electrode Recording of Cardiac Activation.
… activation of the epicardial surface of the heart during open heart surgery. It consists of flexible circuit materials and represents and improved version of a multiple electrode array already in use for the purpose of recording the activity of multiple epicardial sites simultaneously. …
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