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…