Surgery News

In high-risk patients undergoing ablation for ventricular tachycardia, use of a mechanical circulatory support device did not improve clinical outcomes, researchers reported at Heart Rhythm 2023.

A smartphone app-assisted postoperative monitoring intervention improved quality of recovery after cancer surgery, according to results of a study conducted at University of Calgary.

A machine learning-based model appeared to improve prediction of mortality risk for patients undergoing cardiac surgery compared with population-derived models, researchers reported.

Perioperative corticosteroids did not improve in-hospital mortality for children who underwent cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, though corticosteroids may reduce hospital length of stay, data show.

Statin-loading therapy at 12 and 2 hours before CABG — although safe and well tolerated — demonstrated no significant clinical benefit compared with placebo, researchers reported.

Abbott announced FDA clearances for two components of the company’s life support system.

Veterans who lived within 13 miles of a primary care facility were more likely to receive vascular assessments before undergoing amputation compared with those further away, according to researchers.

Higher preoperative hemoglobin levels are associated with higher mortality in both men and women after CABG, whereas patients with lower limits of normal hemoglobin levels were at greater risk compared with mid‐normal values, data show.

Despite recent improvements, sex disparities in diagnostic evaluation and revascularization procedures still exist for patients with STEMI and non-STEMI, according to data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Radial artery graft for the second most important coronary target was associated with lower 15-year all-cause mortality vs. right internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein graft for CABG, researchers reported.