Highlights dramatic changes in anesthetic care for cardiac surgery over the past decade, including fast-track protocols and new technologies.
Clinicians should monitor evolving cardiac anesthesia practices; literature review leaves open need for prospective validation of fast-track protocols.
Anesthetic care for patients undergoing cardiac surgery has change dramatically in the past 10 years. Examples of such change include sameday admissions, “fast-track” protocols, selective use of pulmonary artery catheters, lransesophageal echocardiography, and the introduction of new drugs such as p
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