Cardiac Surgery Fast-track Treatment in a Postanesthetic Care Unit

Cardiac surgery fast-track treatment in a postanesthetic care unit: six-month results of the Leipzig fast-track concept.

BACKGROUND The authors compared the safety and efficacy of a newly developed fast-track concept at their center, including implementation of a direct admission postanesthetic care unit, to standard perioperative management. METHODS All fast-track patients treated within the first 6 months of implementation of our direct admission postanesthetic care unit were matched via propensity scores and...

Postanesthetic care in the critical care unit.

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A specialized post-anaesthetic care unit improves fast-track management in cardiac surgery: a prospective randomized trial

INTRODUCTION Fast-track treatment in cardiac surgery has become the global standard of care. We compared the efficacy and safety of a specialised post-anaesthetic care unit (PACU) to a conventional intensive care unit (ICU) in achieving defined fast-track end-points in adult patients after elective cardiac surgery. METHODS In a prospective, single blinded, randomized study, 200 adult patients...

Fast Track Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia

Early extubation and fast-track management of off-pump cardiac patients in the intensive care unit.

Off-pump surgery was the original approach to treating patients with cardiac disease in the era before cardiopulmonary bypass. With the advent and refinement of cardiopulmonary bypass, the use of this technique fell out of favor and was quickly surpassed by on-pump techniques. However, the limitations of bypass surgery, especially for coronary artery bypass procedures, was still significant, le...