Clinical outcomes in patients with prolonged intensive care unit length of stay after cardiac surgical procedures.

Abstract

Patients with prICULOS after cardiac operations have worse overall outcomes.

These data may be used to inform these patients and their families of realistic expectations regarding their clinical course.

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Subjects

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Cardiac Surgical Procedures
• Cause of Death
• Comorbidity
• Coronary Artery Bypass
• Databases, Factual
• Female
• Heart Valves
• Hospital Mortality
• Humans
• Intensive Care Units
• Kaplan-Meier Estimate
• Length of Stay
• Male
• Middle Aged
• North Carolina
• Prognosis
• Proportional Hazards Models
• Retrospective Studies
• Treatment Outcome

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Authors

• Ansar Hassan
• Curtis Anderson
• Alan Kypson
• Linda Kindell
• T Bruce Ferguson
• W Randolph Chitwood
• Evelio Rodriguez

Publication date

2012-01-24

Journal

Journal topics

• Thoracic Diseases

Language

Eng.

Copyright

The Annals of thoracic surgery

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Saint John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada.

Release reference

Ann Thorac Surg. 2012 Feb;93(2):565-9

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