The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enacted in the European Union in 2018,
has significantly transformed the landscape of personal data management and protection …

Big Data, and the derived analysis techniques, such as artificial intelligence and machine
learning, have been considered a revolution in the modern practice of medicine. Big Data …

Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) has been proposed as a cornerstone for enhanced
recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs, particularly among high-risk patients undergoing …

When the machine learning techniques applied in the domain of cardiothoracic surgery,
safety supervision must be considered. Miles (1) proved the benefits of machine learning …

AKI= acute kidney injury; CPB= cardiopulmonary bypass; ECMO= extracorporeal membrane
oxygenation; ELISA= enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays; EuroSCORE= European …

The authors are to be congratulated on a well-conducted retrospective study [1] in the field of
intraoperative myocardial protection, which represents 1 of the 4 vital fundamental principles …

Method All patients in Golden Jubilee National Hospital undergoing cardiac surgery
between 1 st April 2012 and 31 st March 2016, reported in clinical audit dataset CaTHI, were …

Mortality and morbidity postcardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) remain
relative stable over the last decades, while the number of patients with increased …

Background: Cardiac surgery is, by definition, a “non-physiologic” intervention associated
with systemic adverse effects. Despite advances in surgical technique, cardiopulmonary …

OBJECTIVES Machine learning (ML) has experienced a revolutionary decade with
advances across many disciplines. We seek to understand how recent advances in ML are …