• Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2019

    Review

    Controversies in the Postoperative Management of the Critically Ill Heart Transplant Patient.

    • Tao Shen, Marc H Huh, Lawrence S Czer, Ajay Vaidya, Fardad Esmailian, Jon A Kobashigawa, and Michael Nurok.
    • From the Departments of Anesthesiology.
    • Anesth. Analg. 2019 Oct 1; 129 (4): 1023-1033.

    AbstractHeart transplant recipients are susceptible to a number of complications in the immediate postoperative period. Despite advances in surgical techniques, mechanical circulatory support (MCS), and immunosuppression, evidence supporting optimal management strategies of the critically ill transplant patient is lacking on many fronts. This review identifies some of these controversies with the aim of stimulating further discussion and development into these gray areas.

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