Sergey M. Efremov

TL;DR: From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Research Institute of Circulation Pathology, Novosibirsk, Russia; and ‡Department of Cardiac Surgery, research Institute ofcirculation Pathologists, Octavian, Russia.

TL;DR: The MUST independently predicts postoperative complications and the SNAQ and MUST have comparable accuracy in detecting malnutrition, and whether preoperative nutritional therapy would improve the outcome in malnourished patients needs to be studied.

TL;DR: MUST and MNA both have independent predictive values with regard to postoperative complications and taking into account simplicity, MUST is preferable for the cardiac surgical population.

TL;DR: The understanding of the metabolic response to the inflammatory burst induced by cardiac surgery is reviewed and the potential role of pharmaconutrition in cardiac surgery patients is discussed.

TL;DR: Among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, the incidence of the composite bleeding outcome was significantly lower with tranexamic acid than with placebo, and the between-group difference in the composite cardiovascular outcome was small, the noninferiority of tranxamic acid was not established.