id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-035258-nff6gfik Tanner, Tristan George Pulmonary Complications of Cardiac Surgery 2020-11-11 .txt text/plain 4445 239 28 Pulmonary complications are common in patients who undergo cardiac surgery with outcomes such as pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, ventilation longer than 24 h, and pleural effusions necessitating drainage being reportable to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons [1] . Risk factors for postoperative bleeding in cardiac surgery patients include advanced age, low body weight, nonelective surgery, CPB time over 150 min, high complexity of procedure, perioperative use of antiplatelet agents, and use of over 5 bypass grafts [58] . Operative risk factors include low cardiac output syndrome, more than 3 U of packed RBCs (or massive transfusion), isolated valve surgery, and development of postoperative pneumonia [68, 69] . While routine use of the pulmonary artery catheter became less prevalent over the previous decades, it still holds a central role in the postoperative care of cardiac surgery patients. The incidence, risk factors, and outcome of transfusion-related acute lung injury in a cohort of cardiac surgery patients: a prospective nested casecontrol study ./cache/cord-035258-nff6gfik.txt ./txt/cord-035258-nff6gfik.txt