Marco Ranucci of the IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in San Donato Milanese, Italy, discusses the association between hemodilution, oxygen delivery, and acute kidney injury during and after cardiopulmonary bypass. He presents results of previous retrospective trials and gives a brief overview of the now recently-published goal-directed perfusion trial.
This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for more information on SCTS educational programs.
Ranucci M, Johnson I, Willcox T, et al. Goal-directed perfusion to reduce acute kidney injury: a randomized trial [published online ahead of print April 18, 2018]. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.04.045.
