Critical Care

official impact factor 4.60

Open Access Highly Access Research

The impact of an hematocrit of 20% during normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass for elective low risk coronary artery bypass graft surgery on oxygen delivery and clinical outcome – a randomized controlled study [ISRCTN35655335]

Christian von Heymann1*, Michael Sander1, Achim Foer1, Anja Heinemann1, Bruce Spiess2, Jan Braun1, Michael Krämer1, Joachim Grosse1, Pascal Dohmen3, Simon Dushe3, Jürgen Halle3, Wolfgang F Konertz3, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke3 and Claudia Spies1

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité – University Hospital Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

2 Department of Anesthesiology and the Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Shock Center (VCURES), Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA

3 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité – University Hospital Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany

For all author emails, please log on.

Critical Care 2006, 10:R58 doi:10.1186/cc4891

Published: 10 April 2006

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Standard formulae used for calculating outcome measures.

Format: DOC Size: 23KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

Open Data