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Retained Blood Increases the Likelihood of Death After Cardiac Surgery

ClearFlow provides the only FDA 510(k) cleared device specifically indicated for use to prevent retained blood without…

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Bleeding after heart surgery: Better out than in!

All patients bleed in the early hours after heart surgery. The post-operative blood shed into the chest is drained…

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Primum Non Nocere

Sincere thanks to all of the cardiac surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons and thoracic surgeons who worked so closely with…

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Blake drains are the same as regular chest tubes and cause retained blood

Many cardiac surgeons profess an unjustified affection for channel drains, in particular the Blake design. ALL of the…

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Bleeding begets Bleeding

CardioThoracic surgeons have all seen take-backs for "bleeding" and found no "bleeder". A washout suffices to end the…

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Retained Blood after CABG = worse outcomes

Cite this article as: Tauriainen T, Kinnunen E-M, Koski-V€ah€al€a J, Mosorin M-A, Airaksinen J, Biancari F. Outcome…

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POAF is a big deal and PleuraFlow use to prevent Retained Blood is associated with big decreases in POAF

Share this far and wide – and remember that use of PleuraFlow after cardiac surgery has been clinically shown to reduce…

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WAKE-UP CALL FOR CARDIAC SURGEONS

Tell me, how much of a dent have YOU put into the incidence of POAF since you started in this game? How long have you…

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What is "VALUE" in medicine these days?

Here’s an article that published in the Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery that describes very well the…

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