Calderón-Abbo MC

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Those of us who have been in the operating room long enough know the feeling well: you are halfway through a complex redo, the heart comes off bypass sluggishly, and the anesthesiologist’s face tells you everything before a word is spoken. You add inotropes, you wait, you adjust — and sometimes you get away with it, and sometimes you do not. That particular form of anxiety is what this editorial is about.

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