BACKGROUND: Failure to rescue has been recognized as an important indicator of quality in cardiac surgery. It is considered by the agency for research and quality in health care as one of the twenty indicators of safety for the patient in a hospital institution. It is a proportion in which the numerator ...
Abstract Objective: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent postoperative complication after cardiovascular surgery. It has been described as a predictor of decreased survival rates, but how dialysis decreases survival when initiated on the postoperative period has yet to be determined. To analyze the s...
Abstract Background: Frailty is identified as a major predictor of adverse outcomes in older surgical patients. However, the outcomes in pre-frail patients after cardiovascular surgery remain unknown. Objective: To investigate the main outcomes (length of stay, mechanical ventilation time, stroke and i...
Abstract Objective: To report the early results of the BYPASS project - the Brazilian registrY of adult Patient undergoing cArdiovaScular Surgery - a national, observational, prospective, and longitudinal follow-up registry, aiming to chart a profile of patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery in Braz...
No período de jan/1990 a mar/1999, foram realizados 354 operações para tratamento de lesões da aorta torácica em nosso Serviço. Destas, 47 foram relacionadas a procedimentos no arco aórtico; 31 (66,0 porcento) pacientes eram do sexo masculino e a idade variou de 26 a 74 anos (m = 54,9 + ou - 10,9)...
El objetivo del trabajo fue presentar la experiencia personal de los aspectos técnicos de la cirugía de las arterias coronarias, dividida en tres grandes grupos: cirugía de revascularización indirecta, cirugía de revascularización directa, cirugía de los aneurismas del ventriculo izquierdo. Se est...
