Mechanical Ventilation: Friend or Foe in Cardiac Surgery?

In this number of the journal, the study “Mechanical ventilation time and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting: A cohort study” evaluated retrospectively 110 patients of a single center, who had no previous lung or kidney disease, submitted to elective open bypass surgery between January 2018 and February 2020. Their aim was to evaluate the impact of mechanical ventilation (MV) on mortality using multivariate analysis of MV time, age, sex and cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) time. The patients were divided into [...]