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What is the role of corticosteroids in suppressing inflammatory responses during cardiac anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass?
What is the role of corticosteroids in suppressing inflammatory responses during cardiac anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass?
This review discusses the controversial but routine use of corticosteroids to suppress inflammatory responses during cardiac surgery.
Routine corticosteroid use in cardiac surgery warrants caution amid ongoing controversy; leaves open questions on efficacy for future trials.
To suppress the inflammatory responses induced by cardiopulmonary bypass and its associated procedures, corticosteroids have been administered routinely by the majority of anesthesiologists involved in cardiac surgery, although some controversy remained. This short review discusses the role of corticosteroids in cardiac anesthesia.
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