Metformin Effect on Chest Tube Drainage After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Juozas Kapturauskas, Edmundas Širvinskas Abstract Increasing numbers of patients with diabetes mellitus are referred to cardiac surgery. Biguanides are still first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes in all over the world. According preoperative guidelines, oral diabetes medications should be held on the day of surgery because of increased risk of lactic acidosis, induced by Metformin…