Predicting outcomes in cardiac surgery: risk stratification matters?

JY Dupuis - Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Failure to account for many biological and procedural variables and for the constantly
evolving practice of surgery and perioperative medicine likely contributes to the modest …

[HTML][HTML] Modifying risks to improve outcome in cardiac surgery: An anesthesiologist's perspective

M Chakravarthy - Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Challenging times are here for cardiac surgical and anesthesia team. The interventional
cardiologist seem to have closed the flow of 'good cases' coming up for any of the surgery,; …

Anaesthesia care team improves outcomes in surgical patients compared with solo anaesthesiologist: An observational study

P Dony, L Seidel, M Pirson, P Forget - European Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND In anaesthesiology, little attention has been drawn to the role of
anaesthesia nurses as support personnel on quality of care. OBJECTIVES To compare an …

Effect of subjective preoperative variables on risk-adjusted assessment of hospital morbidity and mortality

ME Cohen, KY Bilimoria, CY Ko, K Richards… - Annals of …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine the influence of American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical
Status Classification (ASA) and preoperative Functional Health Status (FHS) variables on …

Postoperative mortality and complications

DA Story - Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Recent publications not only underline the risks of age and disease during surgery but also
help us quantify the risks with greater precision. Importantly, patient factors often have a …