Continuous Right Ventricular Pressure Monitoring in Cardiac Surgery
Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in cardiac surgery can lead to RV failure which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Abnormal RV function can be identified using RV pressure monitoring. The primary objective of the study is to determine the proportion of patients with abnormal RV early to end-diastole diastolic pressure gradient (RVDPG) and abnormal RV end-diastolic pressure (RVEDP) before initiation and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) separation. Secondary objective is to evaluate if RVDPG before CPB initiation is associated with difficult and complex separation from CPB, RV dysfunction and failure at the end of cardiac surgery.
Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Andr é Denault, Etienne J. Couture, Tjorvi Perry, Elena Saade, Alexander Calderone, Yu Hao Zeng, Daniel Scherb, Kevin Moses, Cristhian Potes, Ali Hammoud, William Beaubien-Souligny, Mahsa Elmi-Sarabi, Lars Grønlykke, Yoan Lamarche, Jean-Sébastien Lebon Source Type: research