Articles: function.
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Feb 2024
ReviewTemporary mechanical circulatory support & enhancing recovery after cardiac surgery.
This review highlights the integration of enhanced recovery principles with temporary mechanical circulatory support associated with adult cardiac surgery. ⋯ Temporary mechanical circulatory support devices promise to enhance recovery by mitigating the risk of complications, such as postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock, organ dysfunction, and death, associated with adult cardiac surgery.
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Critical care medicine · Feb 2024
ReviewThe Roles of Venopulmonary Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
Concise definitive review of the use of venopulmonary arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-PA ECMO) support in patients with cardiopulmonary failure. ⋯ V-PA ECMO is a promising form of extracorporeal support for patients with right ventricular dysfunction. Future work should focus on identifying the optimal timing and populations for the use of V-PA ECMO.
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Although team-based care has been shown in many sectors to improve outcomes, very little work has been done with the thoracic surgical patient. This review article focuses on this and, extrapolating from other closely related surgical fields, teamwork in thoracic surgery will be reviewed for outcome efficacy and substance. ⋯ To improve outcome, the thoracic surgical team, centered on the anesthesiologist and surgeon, will display the 'Big 5' attributes of highly effective teams. There are attributes of poor teams, which the dyad should avoid in order to increase the team's function and thus outcome.
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This study tested performance measures of physical functioning and pain-related psychosocial measures as potential mechanisms of improvements in outcomes following intensive outpatient interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation for adolescents. We hypothesized that improvements in performance measures of physical functioning, fear of pain, pain catastrophizing, and self-efficacy during treatment would be related to improvements in pain, functional disability, and depressive symptoms. ⋯ This study contributes to the growing literature on the effectiveness of pediatric intensive interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation programs and mechanisms that influence improvements in outcomes, an area that is currently underexplored. Results are important to guide future research and inform clinical practice.
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It is well recognized that amyloid protein can infiltrate many regions of the body. This can include the peripheral nerves, the liver, kidney, spleen, the gastrointestinal tract, and most importantly the myocardium. The amyloid proteins that cause cardiomyopathy may come from genetically altered liver genes (transthyretin amyloid, ATTR) or from the bone marrow with malignant plasma cells (light chain amyloid, AL) generating the aberrant protein. ⋯ In the operating room patients are exposed to dramatic hemodynamic changes and may have difficult airways, autonomic dysfunction, and conduction abnormalities. Although the topic of amyloidosis is well described in cardiology literature, it is underdiagnosed. The purpose of this review is to describe some of the pathophysiology behind the principle proteins that cause cardiac amyloidosis and to comprehensively describe perioperative considerations for anesthesia providers.