Fast-track intensive care procedure after cardiac surgery in the 9th decade

Fast Track Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia

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...

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...

A pooled analysis of fast track procedure vs. conventional care in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery

Fast track (FT) procedure has proposed to accelerate recovery, reduce morbidity and shorten hospital stay. The aim of this review was to compare the safety and effectiveness of the FT procedure with that of conventional care in laparoscopic colorectal resection. A systematic literature search for relevant articles was conducted in PUBMED, EMBASE and Cochrane Library digital databases. The main ...

Fast-track recovery in noncoronary cardiac surgery patients.

OBJECTIVE Fast-track recovery protocols result in shorter hospital stays and decreased costs in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. However, data based on an objective scoring system are lacking for the impact of these protocols on patients undergoing cardiac surgery other than isolated CABG. METHODS Between March 1999 and March 2003, 299 consecutive patients who underwent open ca...