Complications of Cardiac Surgery

Only cardiac tamponade (2022) has featured as a CRQ, although cardiac ALS features commonly in SBA/MTF questions.

For those after extensive reading on the issues one might encounter on CICU, Deranged Physiology has a plethora of pages on the topic.

These pages cover the curriculum item: 'Describes the problems associated with post-cardiac surgery including bleeding and the clinical signs and symptoms of cardiac tamponade, and its management'.

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• AKI
• Arrhythmia post-cardiac surgery
• Cardiac tamponade
• Neurological complications of cardiac surgery
• Infection post-cardiac surgery
• Cardiac ALS
• Sternotomy pain
• Thoracotomy & VATS pain (from the thoracic surgery section)