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Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) represent the leading cause of death in France. Their incidence is increasing due to population aging and to the persistence of cardiovascular risk factors. Currently, revascularization surgery remains outside the emergency treatment, because early performed, it tends to lead to extension and hemorrhage of the infarcted area, because of the CPB, aortic clamping, cardioplegia, and other heart manipulation. However, CABG are indicated as an emergency in some situations of STEMI: Threat of infarction of an extended territory without favorable anatomy to angioplasty, anatomy not favorable to angioplasty associated with cardiogenic shock or persistent ischemia, acute complications of myocardial infarction (massive mitral insufficiency, interventricular communication, parietal rupture) requiring surgery under CPB with concomitant bypass surgery or failure of angioplasty (proximal coronary dissection). Operative mortality is high; 15 to 20% for patients operated 12 to 48 hours after AMI and 4-5% for those operated after 48 hours. Nevertheless, it seems legitimate to study if there would be a place for primary surgical revascularization in case of patient with hemodynamically stable ACS, in order to limit myocardial ischemia, spread of necrosis, to limit the risk of recurrence, and the consequences of low cardiac output. Performing a complete early surgical revascularization could limit the ischemia-reperfusion syndrome and anticipate the occurrence of cardiogenic shock.
Enhanced Recovery Protocols (ERPs or bundles) have been established in many surgical specialties (such as colon cancer and orthopaedic joint surgeries) for several years in hospitals worldwide. The principles of Enhanced Recovery Protocols are those of early mobilization and restoration of normal function as soon as possible after surgery. These principles are achieved by use of alternate pain control regimens and removing invasive lines and drains as soon as possible. The benefits of ERPs are improved patient experience, earlier return to normal function and reduced length of stay. Enhanced recovery protocols for cardiac surgery have been published by the Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery Society. The current study will investigate whether it is possible to utilise ERP bundles in the population of cardiac surgery patients at James Cook Hospital, with a view to rolling out a full ERP service. Secondary study outcomes will be patient-centred, including; pain scores, nausea and vomiting rates and time taken to return to normal function.
Extracorporeal life support is increasingly used after cardiac surgery. Despite improved technology, outcome still remains poor. This retrospective multicenter cohort study aims to find the (risk) factors associated with the poor prognosis of these patients. Adult patients who received ECLS after cardiac surgery between 2000 and 2018 are eligible for inclusion
This pilot randomized-controlled study will determine the feasibility of large study comparing individualized versus standard blood pressure (BP) management in patients undergoing cardiac surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Our hypothesis is that maintaining higher BP levels based on preoperative measurements will reduce the incidence of major complications (composite outcome).
Background and Significance A growing amount of evidence linking transfusion of allogeneic blood products with negative patient outcomes and increased cost continues to drive interest into strategies and technologies that limit patient exposure to this risk. The single largest consumer of this resource continues to be cardiac surgery, with 20% of the world wide use of allogeneic blood products accounted for by this cohort. The lysine analogs tranexamic acid (TXA) has gained wide spread use in cardiac surgery as a blood-sparing agent. Mounted evidence has proved its efficacy and safety in cardiac surgery. However, the optimal dose regimen of TXA and the impact on patients' outcomes remains debated. Study Objectives The primary objective of the study is to analyze the primary efficacy (superiority) and primary safety (non-inferiority) of the two dose regimen of tranexamic acid.. The primary efficacy endpoint includes perioperative allogeneic transfusion rate, and the primary safety endpoint includes the 30-day rate of the composite of perioperative renal dysfunction, myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, seizure, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and all-cause mortality. The secondary objectives are to demonstrate the efficacy of the two dose regimens in reducing perioperative allogeneic transfusion volume, postoperative bleeding (chest tube drainage), reoperation rate, mechanic ventilation duration, ICU stay, hospital length of stay (LOS), and total hospitalization cost. Study Endpoints The primary endpoints include efficacy and safety. The primary efficacy endpoint includes perioperative allogeneic transfusion rate, and the primary safety endpoint includes the 30-day rate of the composite of perioperative renal dysfunction, myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, seizure, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and all-cause mortality. The key secondary endpoints of the study are defined as perioperative allogeneic transfusion volume, postoperative bleeding (chest tube drainage), reoperation rate, mechanic ventilation duration, ICU stay, hospital length of stay (LOS), and total hospitalization cost. Study Population Adult patients aged 18-70 years undergoing elective cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass are included. Totally 3008 patients will be required for this study (1504 in each of the 2 groups). Study Design The study is a multicenter, randomised, double-blind trial. Cardiac surgery patients with cardiopulmonary bypass will be randomised to Dosage 1 regimen group or Dosage 2 regimen group of tranexamic acid. Study Treatment The dosage regimen is implemented with dose of loading (intravenous infusion in 20 mins), maintenance (throughout the surgery), and pump prime (added into the bypass machine). The Dosage 2 regimen contains an intravenous bolus of 10 mg/kg after anesthetic induction followed by an intravenous maintenance of 2 mg/kg/h throughout the surgery, and a pump prime dose 1 mg/kg. As for the Dosage 1 regimen, the intravenous bolus and the maintenance are 30 mg/kg and 16 mg/kg/h respectively, and a pump prime dose 2 mg/kg. Patients, surgeons and research staff interviewing patients postoperatively will be blind to treatment allocation. Statistical Considerations The study hypothesis is that the Dosage 1 regimen of tranexamic acid is superiority to the Dosage 2 regimen in the primary efficacy endpoint, while at the same time, the Dosage 1 regimen is non-inferiority to the Dosage 2 regimen in the primary safety endpoint in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. The sample size calculation is mainly based on the blood transfusion rate, and 30-day rate of the composite of perioperative renal dysfunction, myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, seizure, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and all-cause mortality. For the primary efficacy endpoint, a sample size estimate of 1,214 randomized subjects (607 for each group) has 90% power to detect a 12.5% reduction (61.7% vs 70.5% between Dosage 1 regimen and Dosage 2 regimen ), by means of a single-sided α = 0.025 Chi-square test. For the primary safety endpoint, a sample size estimate of 2,698 randomized subjects (1349 for each group) has 90% power to detect a noninferiority margin for the difference of 5%, by means of a single-sided α = 0.025 log rank test. In order to conduct an interim analysis, the sample size in each group is 1504(10% drop-out rate) for the adjusted significance level (from 0.025 to 0.0245 in accordance with α spending function by Lan-DeMets Method). Finally, the investigators decided to enroll 3008 study patients (1:1 ratio) for the OPTIMAL trial.
Termination of cardiopulmonary bypass is a critical step in any cardiac surgical procedure and requires a thorough planning. Debate about rationale of calcium administration during weaning of cardiopulmonary bypass has been conducted for several decades; however, a consensus has not been yet reached. Perioperative hypocalcemia can develop because of haemodilution or calcium binding from heparin, albumin and citrate. Perioperative hypocalcemia is often complicated by development of arrhythmias, especially QT interval prolongation. Furthermore, low content of calcium can lead to vascular tone disorders, violation of neuromuscular transmission, altered hemostasis and heart failure, resistant to inotropic agents, especially in patients with concomitant cardiomyopathy. On the other hand, hypercalcaemia is a dangerous complication in cardiac surgery. Among the fatal, but rather rare complications, there are acute pancreatitis and the phenomenon of the "stone heart", which is essentially a reperfusion injury of the myocardium caused by rapid calcium overload. Hypercalcaemia can also trigger rhythm disturbances, hypertension, increase systemic vascular resistance, reduce diastolic compliance and impair relaxation of the myocardium due to excessive calcium intake into the cardiomyocytes, cause coronary vasospasm and aggravate ischaemic myocardial damage, impair arterial graft blood flow during aortocoronary and mammary coronary bypass surgery. To date, there is a lack of data indicating clinical efficacy of calcium administration before separation from CPB. Therefore, we designed this randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis whether calcium administration at termination of CPB will reduce the need for inotropic support at the end of surgery.
In this prospective study the investigators want to measure the serum level changes of the thyroid hormones (thyroid-stimulating hormone, reverse triiodothyronine, serum free T4), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), testosterone and sexual hormone binding protein (SHBG) in adults undergoing cardiac surgery and search for correlations different psychosocial factors and analyze the influence on the survival and the length of ICU/hospital stay.
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a frequent and important complication to cardiac surgery. This study will evaluate the diagnostic ability of ultrasonographic measures of blood flow in kidneys and liver in predicting AKI after cardiac surgery.
The links between systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in pre-clinical models make it an interesting potential therapeutic target, but there are no data describing SRE during severe inflammation in humans . For an approach to the study of SRE in humans in a situation of systemic inflammation, the analysis of patients benefiting from an extra-corporeal circulation for a programmed cardiac surgery would allow a study under well described conditions of inflammation, standardized, with the possibility for each patient to be his own witness. Compared to a situation of secondary inflammation (sepsis, acute pancreatitis, trauma ...) the analysis of the patients under CEC allows more precise description of the kinetics of the activation of the SRE because the beginning of the inflammatory mechanism is known with precision.