Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. · Oct 2011
Scholarly productivity of united states academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists: influence of fellowship accreditation and transesophageal echocardiographic credentials on h-index and other citation bibliometrics.
The h-index allows the evaluation of scholarly output in academics, but this bibliometric statistic has not been applied extensively to measure productivity in anesthesiology. The authors tested the hypothesis that the h-index is dependent on academic rank, American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accreditation of the training program, and National Board of Echocardiography credentials in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in United States academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists. ⋯ The results show that the h-index increases progressively with academic rank and is dependent on fellowship program accreditation status but not transesophageal echocardiographic credentials in United States academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists.
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J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. · Oct 2011
Retraction Of PublicationRetraction: De Hert SG, Lorsomradee S, vanden Eede H, Cromheecke S, Van der Linden PJ. A randomized trial evaluating different modalities of levosimendan administration in cardiac surgery patients with myocardial dysfunction. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2008;22:699-705.
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J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. · Oct 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialThoracic epidural analgesia with levobupivacaine for 6 postoperative days attenuates sympathetic activation after thoracic surgery.
To investigate the impact of 2 postoperative analgesic regimens on heart rate variability in patients who underwent thoracotomy. ⋯ Postoperatively decreased cardiac sympathetic outflow continues with epidural analgesia, whereas it is abolished by the change to intravenous patient-controlled morphine.