Perioperative and Intensive Care Challenges in Cardiac Surgery
A Special Issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144) belonging to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 763
Editors
Interests: cardiothoracic anesthesiology; cardiopulmonary bypass; systematic inflamatory response; postoperative complication; postoperative delirium; cerebral autoregulation dysfunction; renal impairment after cardiac surgery; postoperative pulmonary dysfunction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery have significantly improved perioperative survival and postoperative recovery. Nevertheless, patients undergoing major surgical procedures continue to experience a substantial burden of complications requiring intensive care management, prolonged hospitalization, and long-term rehabilitation. Increasing patient age, multimorbidity, and procedural complexity, together with the growing use of minimally invasive interventions and mechanical circulatory support technologies, continue to reshape perioperative and critical care practice worldwide.
At the same time, perioperative medicine faces several important challenges. Despite ongoing technological progress, postoperative complications such as hemodynamic instability, respiratory failure, delirium, bleeding, and organ dysfunction remain common and are associated with considerable morbidity and healthcare costs. There is growing recognition that successful perioperative care requires not only technical expertise but also timely clinical decision-making, multidisciplinary collaboration, individualized patient management, and implementation of evidence-based strategies across the entire perioperative pathway. These evolving concepts create new opportunities for both translational research and improvements in everyday clinical practice.
This Special Issue aims to present current advances and emerging perspectives in perioperative medicine, cardiac anesthesia, and intensive care related to cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgical patients. We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, clinical investigations, and evidence-based reviews addressing contemporary perioperative and critical care challenges, with particular attention to patient safety, organ protection, postoperative recovery, and multidisciplinary approaches to care.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
[Topic 1] Cardiac anesthesia and perioperative management
[Topic 2] Vasoplegic syndrome and right ventricular dysfunction
[Topic 3] Postoperative delirium and neurocognitive complications
Dr. Judita Andrejaitienė
Dr. Povilas Jakusǩa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiac surgery
- cardiothoracic anesthesia
- perioperative medicine
- intensive care
- cardiothoracic critical care
- postoperative complications
- hemodynamic monitoring
- mechanical circulatory support
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- postoperative delirium
- respiratory failure
- vasoplegic syndrome
- right ventricular dysfunction
- organ protection
- enhanced recovery after surgery
- perioperative monitoring
- postoperative critical care
- extracorporeal circulation
- patient safety
- multidisciplinary care
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