Search Results - "Litvan, Héctor"
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Ministernotomy versus median sternotomy for aortic valve replacement: a prospective, randomized study
Published in The Annals of thoracic surgery (01-06-1999)“…Background. Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement reduces surgical trauma and, supposedly, postoperative pain, blood loss, and length of stay. A…”
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Comparison of conventional averaged and rapid averaged, autoregressive-based extracted auditory evoked potentials for monitoring the hypnotic level during propofol induction
Published in Anesthesiology (Philadelphia) (01-08-2002)“…The extraction of the middle latency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEP) is usually done by moving time averaging (MTA) over many sweeps (often 250-1,000),…”
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients undergoing major heart surgery: an incidence study in Europe
Published in Critical care (London, England) (01-01-2009)“…Patients undergoing major heart surgery (MHS) represent a special subpopulation at risk for nosocomial infections. Postoperative infection is the main…”
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Rapid extraction of middle-latency auditory-evoked potentials
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Cerebral state index during propofol anesthesia : A comparison with the Bispectral index and the A-Line ARX index
Published in Anesthesiology (Philadelphia) (01-07-2006)“…The objective of this study was to prospectively test the Cerebral State Index designed for measuring the depth of anesthesia. The Cerebral State Index is…”
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Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of EEG as a Measure of Depth of Anesthesia
Published in IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering (01-05-2007)“…For several decades, a number of methods have been developed for the noninvasive assessment of the level of consciousness during general anesthesia. In this…”
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Cerebral State Index during Propofol Anesthesia
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Inhaled nitric oxide therapy in adults : European expert recommendations
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-08-2005)“…Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) has been used for treatment of acute respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension since 1991 in adult patients in the…”
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The effect of two different doses of aprotinin on hemostasis in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery: similar transfusion requirements and blood loss
Published in Haematologica (Roma) (01-12-2000)“…Thrombosis and Haemostasis Unit, Haematology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Various dosages of…”
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Aprotinin versus desmopressin for patients undergoing operations with cardiopulmonary bypass : a double-blind placebo-controlled study
Published in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (01-10-1995)“…Aprotinin reduces blood loss in operations done with cardiopulmonary bypass, whereas the use of desmopressin remains controversial. We compared aprotinin,…”
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Platelet function during cardiopulmonary bypass not changed by two different doses of aprotinin
Published in Haematologica (Roma) (01-04-2000)“…Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Bleeding is one of the major…”
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Aprotinin versus desmopressin for patients undergoing operations with cardiopulmonary bypass
Published in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (1995)“…Background. Aprotinin reduces blood loss in operations done with cardio-pulmonary bypass, whereas the use of desmopressin remains controversial. We compared…”
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Comparison of auditory evoked potentials and the A-line ARX Index for monitoring the hypnotic level during sevoflurane and propofol induction
Published in Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (01-03-2002)“…Background: Extraction of the middle latency auditory evoked potentials (AEP) by an auto regressive model with exogenous input (ARX) enables extraction of the…”
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Depth of anesthesia monitors: status quo
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Pulmonary function following aortic valve replacement: a comparison between ministernotomy and median sternotomy
Published in The Journal of heart valve disease (01-11-1999)“…Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (AVR) has several theoretical advantages over standard median sternotomy, but the effects of these techniques on…”
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Symbolic dynamics applied to EEG signal for monitoring anaesthetic depth during propofol infusion
Published in Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Cat. No.00CH37143) (2000)“…The extraction of a consistent and reliable measure online and close to real time to assess the hypnotic level during anesthesia is a continuous challenge to…”
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An AEP/EEG hybrid index for monitoring the hypnotic depth during general anesthesia
Published in First International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2003. Conference Proceedings (2003)“…The extraction of a consistent and reliable measure online and close to real time to assess the hypnotic level during anesthesia is a continuous challenge to…”
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