Postoperative outcome in awake, on-pump, cardiac surgery patients

Abstrakt

The aim of our study was to investigate data of early and late postoperative outcome results of awake TEA patients undergoing cardiac surgery with comparison to patients under combined and general anesthesia (GA).

Klíčová slova

• Cardiac surgery
• Thoracic epidural anesthesia
• Cardiopulmonary bypass
• Postoperative outcome
• Mortality
• thoracic epidural-anesthesia
• obstructive pulmonary-disease
• heart-valve surgery
• general-anesthesia
• analgesia
• hematoma
• bupivacaine