2024
Impact of Nighttime Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Staffing on Failure to Rescue and Revenue
Kang J, Holmes S, Rando H, Chinedozi I, Darby Z, Briscoe J, Grant M, Whitman G. Impact of Nighttime Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Staffing on Failure to Rescue and Revenue. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2024 PMID: 39481824, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2024.10.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEra 1Era 2Cardiac surgeryRelative value unitsFTR ratesPost-cardiotomy patientsMajor complicationsComplication ratePostoperative complicationsAnnual relative value unitsMultivariate analysisNighttime intensivist staffingComplicationsIntensive care unit staffingPatientsIntensivist staffingICU censusSurgeryICUMortalityValue unitsFiscal yearRiskUnit staffingFTR
2008
Intraoperative detection of intimal lipid in the radial artery predicts degree of postoperative spasm
Brown E, Burris N, Kon Z, Grant M, Brazio P, Xu C, Laird P, Gu J, Kallam S, Desai P, Poston R. Intraoperative detection of intimal lipid in the radial artery predicts degree of postoperative spasm. Atherosclerosis 2008, 205: 466-471. PMID: 19264305, PMCID: PMC2717172, DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2008.12.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostoperative spasmRA conduitOptical coherence tomographyDistal RARisk of spasmCatheter-based optical coherence tomographyRA graftsCABG patientsBypass graftRadial arteryLuminal diameterIntimal abnormalitiesIntraoperative detectionSpasmIntimal lipidDay 5Lipid depositsCoherence tomographyProximal portionGraftDegree of attenuationDiameter changesOCT imagesSevere changesRisk