Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: 1. ≥ 18 years of age 2. Planned cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (sternotomy or MICS) 3. Preoperative European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) of 2% or more. 4. Informed consent obtained. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Emergency surgery 2. Patients who refuse participation 3. Patients who are unable to give informed consent 4. Patients who are having a heart or lung transplant. 5. Surgery for insertion of any ventricular assist device 6. Aortic arch procedures with any degree of debranching or hybrid with endovascular intervention in the ascending aorta +/- arch. 7. Patients who require MCS (including ECMO, Impella, or IABP) post-operatively 8. Patients on contact/droplet isolation. 9. Patients deemed excessively unstable and/or complex by their attending intensivist on arrival to the ICU. 10. If the post-operative arterial line MAP goal is not 65 mmHg. 11. Patients who suffer intra-operative mortality.