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…

Perioperative Factors and Chest Tube Drainage in Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

Juozas Kapturauskas, Edmundas Širvinskas Abstract Bleeding remains a global problem in cardiac surgery. Patients have significant risk of bleeding after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. The amount of blood loss after such operations is directly related to the increased need of blood transfusion, prolonged hospital stay, worse outcome. The aim: to identify factors which lead…