Is routine extubation overnight safe in cardiac surgery patients?

Objectives

Expedient extubation after cardiac surgery has been associated with improved outcomes, leading to postoperative extubation frequently during overnight hours. However, recent evidence in a mixed medical-surgical intensive care unit population demonstrated worse outcomes with overnight extubation. This study investigated the impact of overnight extubation in a statewide, multicenter Society of Thoracic Surgeons database.

Off pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) in critical left mainstem stenosis—Our experience

Background Beating heart surgery has now become the commonest technique of doing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG) in our country. It is being used even in such high risk situations like diffuse coronary disease and Critical Left Main stem Stenosis (LMCS) with good results. The aim of this study is to retrospectively review our results in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB) in patients with critical left main stem stenosis. Methods This study is a retrospective analysis of the data of patients who underwent primary coronary artery bypass surgery. During the period from April 2003 to September 2005 a total of 64 patients underwent OPCAB procedure for critical LMCS. During the same period 10 patients underwent CABG on Cardio Pulmonary Bypass (CPB). The age range was 36–77yrs. The sex distribution was M: F 53∶10. Ten patients were done as emergency. 2 of them were on Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) support preoperatively. 10 patients were high risk with a Euro score of ≥5. Results Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA) was used in 78% of cases. Average grafts per patient was 2.96. The median ventilation time was 5.91 hrs. New IABP insertion in postoperative period was required in 1 patient. One patient was reexplored for bleeding. There was one perioperative myocardial infarction. 57% of patients did not need any blood transfusion. There was no conversion to CPB. There was no operative mortality. Inotropes were used in ten cases. Conclusions OPCAB is a safe method of revascularization in patients with critical LMCS. Preoperative IABP is useful in patients with cardiogenic shock. However, there is a place for CPB in patients needing additional procedures like Mitral Valve repair (MV repair) or Dor's procedure or when the vessels are very diffusely diseased. Those patients who are unstable despite IABP support may be managed by Beating heart On Pump (BHOP) technique.     

术前左室射血分数及短缩分数对冠状动脉旁路术后恶性心律失常的预测价值

为了评价冠状动脉旁路术 (CABG)术前左室射血分数 (LVEF)及左室短缩分数 (LVFS)对术后室性心律失常 (VA)预测的准确性 ,采用术前及术后 2周心脏彩超EF、FS值 (面积长轴法 )、心室晚电位 (VLP)、心肌酶、持续心电监测的方法 ,对我院 1 5 0例行CABG术的患者进行分析。结果 :1 )术前心肌梗死 (MI)、室壁瘤、VA及VLP阳性患者EF、FS值明显减低 ;2 )术前左心功能不全 (LVD)患者术后EF、FS值明显改善 ;3 )术前LVD、VA、VLP阳性及室壁瘤患者术后VA发生率明显高于其他患者。提示 :1 )面积长轴法EF、FS值是反映左心功能的敏感指标 ;2 )术前LVD患者术后短期左心功能明显好转 ,获益最大 ;3 )非LVD患者术后因心肌顿抑导致近期心功能暂时下降 ;4 )EF≤ 4 0 %和(或 )FS≤ 2 4 %是预测术后VA的独立指标 ,FS较EF更能准确地反映心脏收缩功能 ;5 )LVD、VLP、室壁瘤等综合指标分析有助于提高对术后VA预期的敏感性、特异性和准确性     

306例冠状动脉旁路移植术临床分析

目的　总结冠状动脉旁路移植术治疗冠心病的体会。　方法　回顾性分析 3 0 6例冠状动脉旁路移植术。男 2 49例 ,女 5 7例。应用体外循环 2 3 4例 ,非体外循环 72例。搭桥数 1～ 6支 人 ,平均 (3 .45± 1.2 5 )支 人。对手术方法、主要并发症和术后处理进行分析总结。结果　二次开胸 5例 (1.6% ) ,低心排综合征 10例 (3 .3 % ) ,应用IABP4例 (1.3 % ) ,肝功能不全 6例 (2 .0 % )。肾功能不全 7例 (2 .3 % ) ,反复发作房颤 2 3例 (7.5 % ) ,肺功能不全 6例(2 .0 % ) ,脑合并症 3例 (1.0 % ) ,胸腔积液 41例 (13 .4% )。死亡 7例 (2 .3 % ) ,其余病人康复出院。结论　合理的选择病人 ,成熟的手术技术 ,良好的心肌保护及术后处理的加强是提高冠状动脉旁路移植术疗效的重要措施。     

The influence of intravenous magnesium sulphate on the occurrence of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery by-pass operation

To examine the influence of (Mg) on hypomagnesaemia and atrialfibrillation (AF) following coronary artery by-pass surgery,140 consecutive patients were randomized to receive 70 mmolof magnesium sulphate intravenously (n = 69) or placebo (n =71). Serum magnesium concentrations fell to 0.77 ± 0.10mmol. l^–1 in the control group but rose to 1.09 ±0.17 mmol. l^–1 in the Mg group (P <0.001). The incidenceof AF was 29% in the Mg group and 26% in the placebo group (NS).The AF patients were older, more of them had had prior AF episodes,their sinus rates (SR) were slower (78 ± 10 vs 86 ±12 beats. Min^–1; P <0.01) and serum Mg concentrationshigher (0.89 ± 0.21 vs 0.11 mmol. ^l–1; P <0.05)The incidence of AF was 43% in the highest quartile of serumMg and 23% among the rest (P = 0.056). In patients experiencingAF during the first three post-operative days, serum Mg concentrationswere higher and SR slower on each day compared with non-AF patients.SR increased post-operatively less with high Mg levels (P =0.044). In the Mg group, serum Mg and SR were the only independentpredictors of AF. In conclusion, the incidence of post-operativeAF is not decreased with magnesium. High Mg levels are likelyto provoke AF probably by mechanisms that modify SR.     

Changes of the beat amplitude power after partial left ventriculectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting

Partial left ventriculectomy (PLV) was originally introduced as a new surgical approach by patients with an end stage of cardiac disease. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a standard procedures used in cardiac surgery. Multichannel ECG (MECG) measurements and body surface mapping (BSM) were used to analyse the normalised beat amplitude power maps (BAM) that reflect an overall cardiac activity. The resulting BAMs show that the amplitude of cardiac signals decrease for approximately 30% after the PLV and stay in the same level during the postoperative monitoring interval while after CABG no significant changes in BAM have been observed. In addition the electrodes from the body surface area above the left ventricle, where surgery was performed, show significant changes in beat amplitudes.     

Post-mortem cast angiography in the diagnostics of graft complications in patients with fatal outcome following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)

The advantages and limitations of a novel post-mortem angiographic method using solidifying silicone rubber and lead oxide as a contrast medium in detecting coronary artery graft complications on a routine basis were evaluated in a series of 223 consecutive patients with fatal outcome within 30 days following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Of these patients, 166 (74.4%) were male and 57 (25.6%) female (mean age 61.9 ± 9). Coronary grafts totalled 660 (3.0 per patient) with 517 aortic and 838 coronary anastomoses. At autopsy, the rubber cast model of the grafts and coronary arterial tree was exposed by a bend scalpel and sites of possible complications were examined. Post-mortem angiographs were re-evaluated and compared with preoperative angiographs and dissection findings. By combining the findings of angiography and heart dissection, 122 (54.7%) of the 223 patients were found to have some type of complication of the graft or the anastomosis. The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of postmortem angiography was 100% in assessing narrowing or twisting of the graft as well as narrowing of the aortal anastomosis, whereas these findings were revealed with difficulty by autopsy dissection only. In cases with correct x-ray projection, narrowing and occlusion of the proximal aortal and distal coronary anastomosis were also reliably revealed by angiography. In contrast, graft thrombosis was clearly overdiagnosed by angiography, leading to a lower specificity (84%) but high sensitivity (100%) in detecting this complication. Post-mortem angiography also failed to detect dissection of the wall of the graft or anastomosis. Technical problems with this angiographic method were due to too low perfusion pressure, too rapid polymerizing of the silicone rubber, leakage of contrast medium into the ventricles, or faulty x-ray projections. These results suggest that our post-mortem angiographic technique, yielding a permanent rubber- cast model of the graft and anastomosis site, improves the accuracy of diagnostics of postoperative CABG complications and eases postoperative autopsy dissection, which can now be directed to confirm suspected complications. Received: 27 October 1997 / Received in revised form: 2 July 1998     

右美托咪定靶控输注在冠状动脉搭桥术中的作用

【摘要】 目的 研究右美托咪定靶控输注在冠状动脉搭桥术 (CABG) 中的作用。方法 纳入2015年1 月~2017年10月于我院行CABG治疗的94例冠心病患者,数字法随机分为观察组与对照组,每组各47例。两组均采用常规气管插管全麻,观察组在此基础上进行右美托咪定靶控输注,对照组输注等量生理盐水。将麻醉诱导前、麻醉后、插管前、插管后及插管后5min设为T0、T1、T2、T3、T4,比较各时间点两组动脉舒张压（DBP）、收缩压（SBP）、平均动脉压（MAP）、心率（HR）、HR与SBP乘积（RPP）以及手术时间、拔管时间、苏醒时间。结果 两组T0、T1、T2 HR、RPP比较差异均无统计学意义（P＞005）,T3、T4观察组HR低于对照组,差异具有统计学意义（P＜005）; 两组T0、T1、T2DBP、SBP、MAP比较差异均无统计学意义（P＞005）,T3、T4观察组DBP、SBP、MAP均低于对照组,差异具有统计学意义（P＜005）;两组手术时间比较差异无统计学意义（P＞005）;观察组苏醒时间、拔管时间低于对照组,差异具有统计学意义（P＜005）。结论 冠心病冠状动脉搭桥术治疗运用右美托咪定靶控输注能够降低插管后血压与心率,即减轻气管插管时心血管反应及心肌耗氧。