Our meta-analysis provides evidence that preoperative statin therapy exerts substantial clinical benefit on early postoperative adverse outcomes in cardiac surgery patients, but underscores the need for RCT trials.

Quick encouragement of ECMO for the temporary management of gas exchange may increase survival rates in trauma patients with ARDS.

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Long-term results after LTx with organs procured following DCD are in general comparable with those obtained after DBD LTx. However, patients transplanted using organs from DCD donors have a predisposition for development of BOS in the longer follow-up.

The Synergy device provides partial hemodynamic support and its use is associated with significantly improved hemodynamics, thus appearing to interrupt and partially reverse the progressive hemodynamic deterioration typical of end-stage heart failure. Ongoing efforts are aimed at demonstrating additional clinical benefits and continuing to further improve the risk/benefit ratio.