• HayangaJ W AworiJWADepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa. Electronic address: jeremiah.hayanga@wvumedicine.org., Philippe H Lemaitre, HelenMari Merritt-Genore, Nicholas R Teman, Nathalie Roy, Pablo G Sanchez, Jeffrey Javidfar, Laura Donahoe, and Rakesh C Arora.
• Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa. Electronic address: jeremiah.hayanga@wvumedicine.org.
• J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2022 Dec 1; 164 (6): e449e456e449-e456.

AbstractFor yet another year, our lives have been dominated by a pandemic. This year in review, we feature an expert panel opinion regarding extracorporeal support in the context of COVID-19, challenging previously held standards. We also feature survey results assessing the impact of the pandemic on cardiac surgical volume. Furthermore, we focus on a single center experience that evaluated the use of pulmonary artery catheters and the comparison of transfusion strategies in the Restrictive and Liberal Transfusion Strategies in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction (REALITY) trial. Additionally, we address the impact of acute kidney injury on cardiac surgery and highlight the controversy regarding the choice of fluid resuscitation. We close with an evaluation of dysphagia in cardiac surgery and the impact of prehabilitation to optimize surgical outcomes.Copyright © 2022 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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