Introduction: Post cardiac surgery hemorrhagic syndromes, potentialized by implementing cardiopulmonary bypass, leads to increased hazards of blood products transfusion and pertains serious impacts on immediate patients outcome. The objective of this clinical trial was to investigate the efficiency of exogenous fibrinogen to control hemorrhagic syndromes following cardiac surgery in the intensi...

Background: Postoperative shivering is an important and troublesome condition during recovery from general anesthesia.  Corticosteroids have been recommended to facilitate recovery and diminish shivering after cardiac surgery.  Previous studies recommended 0.6 mg/kg dexamethasone for reducing postoperative shivering in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.   Objective: To test this assertion, we...

Postoperative hypoparathyroidism (POH) is the most common complication after bilateral thyroid surgery and it characterized by low serum calcium levels with inappropriately parathyroid hormone (PTH) level. Several risk factors have been described, including technical issues (inadvertent gland excision or devascularization) patient- disease-related (sex, type of disease). Surgical strategies to ...