Volatile Anesthetics versus Total Intravenous Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery

Landoni, Giovanni; Lomivorotov, Vladimir V; Nigro Neto, Caetano; Monaco, Fabrizio; Pasyuga, Vadim V; Bradic, Nikola; Lembo, Rosalba; Gazivoda, Gordana; Likhvantsev, Valery V; Lei, Chong; Lozovskiy, Andrey; Di Tomasso, Nora; Bukamal, Nazar A R; Silva, Fernanda S; Bautin, Andrey E; Jun, Ma; Crivellari, Martina; Farag, Ahmed M G A; Uvaliev, Nikolay S; Carollo, Cristiana; Pieri, Marina; Kunstýř, Jan; Wang, Chew Yin; Belletti, Alessandro; Hajjar, Ludhmila A; Grigoryev, Evgeny V; Agrò, Felice E; Riha, Hynek; El-Tahan, Mohamed R; Scandroglio, A Mara; Elnakera, Abeer M; Baiocchi, Massimo; Navalesi, Paolo; Shmyrev, Vladimir A; Severi, Luca; Hegazy, Mohammed A; Crescenzi, Giuseppe; Ponomarev, Dmitry N; Brazzi, Luca; Arnoni, Renato; Tarasov, Dmitry G; Jovic, Miomir; Calabrò, Maria G; Bove, Tiziana; Bellomo, Rinaldo; Zangrillo, Alberto

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1816476

Volatile (inhaled) anesthetic agents have cardioprotective effects, which might improve clinical outcomes in patients undergoing coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Volatile Anesthetics versus Total Intravenous Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery / Landoni, G., Lomivorotov, V.V., Nigro Neto, C., Monaco, F., Pasyuga, V.V., Bradic, N., Lembo, R., Gazivoda, G., Likhvantsev, V.V., Lei, C., Lozovskiy, A., Di Tomasso, N., Bukamal, N.A.R., Silva, F.S., Bautin, A.E., Ma, J., Crivellari, M., Farag, A.M.G.A., Uvaliev, N.S., Carollo, C., et al.. - In: THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. - ISSN 0028-4793. - 380:13(2019), pp. 1214-1225. [10.1056/NEJMoa1816476]