In 2019, cardiothoracic and vascular critical care remained an important focus and
subspecialty. This article continues the annual series to review relevant contributions
in postoperative critical care that may affect the cardiac anesthesiologist. Herein,
the pertinent literature published in 2019 is explored and organized by organ system.
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