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Nursing

Rhode Island College

2020

Evidence Based Practice; Decision Tree; Intravenous Anesthetic; Cardiac Surgery

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An Iv Anesthetic Decision Tree For Cardiac Surgery, Brian Doucette Aug 2020

An Iv Anesthetic Decision Tree For Cardiac Surgery, Brian Doucette

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

A thorough literature review was conducted covering the topics Intravenous anesthetics, pathophysiology of structural heart disease, and decision-making in anesthesia. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials was performed guided by the PRISMA protocol. Through the lens of Information Processing Theory, the results of the systematic review were used to guide the creation of a decision tree for the selection of the appropriate intravenous anesthetic for cardiac surgery.