title: The Year in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia: Selected Highlights From 2016.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.
authors.forename: Harish
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ramakrishna
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Jacob T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Gutsche
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Prakash A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL.
authors.forename: Adam S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Menachem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weiner
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.
authors.forename: Steven T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Morozowich
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Emily K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Hynek
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Riha
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bracker
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Duke University, Durham, NC.
authors.forename: Kamrouz
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ghadimi
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Sunberri
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Warren
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Spitz
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: MacKay
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology, Penn State University, Hershey, PA.
authors.forename: Theodore J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Cios
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology, Penn State University, Hershey, PA.
authors.forename: Anita K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Elvera
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Shahzad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shaefi
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fassl
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Stuart J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.affiliation: Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Silvay
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: yiandoc@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: John G T
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Augoustides
keywords: American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association; Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network; CoreValve trials; Dexamethasone for Cardiac Surgery trial; Dual Antiplatelet Therapy trial; EuroSCORE; NOTION trials; P2Y(12) receptor; PARTNER trials; Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Prior Heart Attack Using Ticagrelor Compared to Placebo on a Background of Aspirin—Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 54 trial; STICH trial; Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Steroids in Cardiac Surgery trial; acute coronary syndromes; aortic stenosis; aspirin; balloon-inflatable prosthesis; bare metal stent; bicuspid aortic valve; bleeding risk; clopidogrel; coronary artery bypass grafting; coronary stent; dexamethasone; drug-eluting stent; dual-antiplatelet therapy; ischemic cardiomyopathy; ischemic mitral regurgitation; left ventricular end-systolic volume index; left ventricular surgical reconstruction; meta-analysis; methylprednisolone; mitral valve repair; myocardial infarction; noncardiac surgery; percutaneous coronary intervention; prasugrel; self-inflating prosthesis; stable ischemic heart disease; stent thrombosis; steroids; surgical aortic valve replacement; surgical risk; systemic inflammatory response syndrome; ticagrelor; transcatheter aortic valve replacement