Newsletter

The SCA Newsletter is Your Forum

The SCA Newsletter wants to provide a forum for your opinions. Please email your comments, responses, or letters to hallie@societyhq.com.

Albert T. Cheung, MD
Chair, Newsletter Committee

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Table of Contents:

• President's Message
• Editor's Column
• The SCA Newsletter is Your Forum
• Call for Nominations
• SCA Research Starter and Mid-Career Grants
• Literature Reviews
  • Statins are Associated with a Reduced Incidence of Perioperative Mortality in Patients Undergoing Major Noncardiac Vascular Surgery
  • Glucose Control and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients
  • Chronic Renal Failure after Transplantation of a Nonrenal Organ
• Drug & Innovation Review
  • Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents
  • Tifacogin, Recombinant Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor
  • Recommendation for Application of Therapeutic Hypothermia to Cardiac Arrest Victims
  • Fondaparinux
  • Awake Heart Surgery: Useful Technique or "Trick"?
  • Mitral Valve Regurgitation: Replace?, Repair?, Revascularize?
  • Inhibition of Na/H Exchange in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

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