A study of posterior pericardial drainage in adult cardiac surgery

Preventive Role of Posterior Pericardiotomy in Early Post-Cardiac Surgery Atrial Fibrillation and Pericardial Collection

“…Also kaygin et al (6) proved that posterior pericardiotomy significantly decreases duration of ICU & hospital stay (P=0.012) as these studied cases had less rhythmic complications & pericardial effusion. Many studies proved that posterior pericardial drainage is effective in shortening the duration of ICU and hospital stay (13) . But some studies, including our research, did not show variation in these parameters among intervention and control groups.…”