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The patient who was hospitalized for 18 days, age 72, showed decreased level of consciousness due to ischemic cerebral vascular accident (CVA) in the immediate postoperative and

Relating these two indicators, it was observed in this study that the heart surgery patient had a high perception of safety when using the service at the hospital and a low

[18] in a prospective and multicenter study, also developed an index for risk of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery, in which factors considered independently associated

Fig 1 - Flowchart of inclusion and evaluation of the sample’s patients NIV - Non-invasive ventilation; ARI - acute respiratory failure; FEV 1 - forced expiratory volume in 1

The most common site of lodging of The loop-snare was introduced through the guiding catheter until the distal end, the catheter was grasped and the whole set was removed,

Table 3 shows the distributions of presumed lethality, according to the logistic model for risk ranges of additive EuroSCORE and the estimated observed mortality in patients from Rio

One of the biggest advances in CABG was the use of the internal thoracic artery (ITA) anastomosed to the left anterior descending branch (AD) of the left coronary artery [2,3],

Our main finding shows that in a population of patients undergoing CABG, those who remained active in the period of two years and those who went from being sedentary to active