• J Card Surg · Oct 2020

    Early respiratory outcomes following cardiac surgery in patients with COVID-19.

    • Khosro Barkhordari, Mohamad R Khajavi, Jamshid Bagheri, Sepideh Nikkhah, Mahmood Shirzad, Sepehr Barkhordari, Katayun Kharazmian, and Marjan Nosrati.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
    • J Card Surg. 2020 Oct 1; 35 (10): 2479-2485.

    BackgroundBoth coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and cardiac surgery have a negative impact on pulmonary function. This study aimed to determine the postoperative respiratory outcomes of patients with COVID-19 who underwent cardiac surgery.MethodsIn this retrospective study, we reviewed and analyzed the patient characteristics and clinical data of 25 asymptomatic patients with COVID-19 who underwent urgent or emergency cardiac surgery at Tehran Heart Center Hospital, Iran, between 29 February and 10 April 2020.ResultsThe mean age, EuroSCORE, and body mass index were 57.3 ± 15.1 years, 6.65 ± 1.29, and 25.7 ± 3.7 kg/m2 , respectively. Four patients underwent off-pump cardiac surgery and 21 underwent on-pump cardiac surgery with a median cardiopulmonary bypass time of 85 minutes (interquartile range (IQR, 50-147). The overall mortality rate and the length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) were higher compared to those of a propensity-matched group of patients who underwent cardiac surgery in the pre-COVID era. The median intubation time was 13 hours (IQR, 9.5-18), which was comparable to that of pre-COVID cardiac surgery patients. The readmission rate to the ICU was 16%. In this ICU readmitted group, the mean oxygen index, FiO2 , and mortality rate were higher and the PaO2 /FiO2 ratio was lower than those of the nonreadmitted patients.ConclusionsAlthough early respiratory outcomes of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients who underwent early cardiac surgery appeared to be satisfactory, compared to the propensity-scored matched non-COVID group, the postoperative outcomes were worse, especially in the ICU readmitted patients. We suggest postponing cardiac operations unless the patient requires emergency surgery.© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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