Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. · Nov 2008
Practical use of a risk assessment model for complications after cardiac surgery.
The identification of risk factors for postoperative complications in cardiac patients with surgical indication may influence the therapeutic decision. ⋯ TUMAN's score was chosen as it uses variables that can be promptly obtained, classifies in the same system the most frequently performed surgeries and predicts risk of postoperative complications, in addition to mortality. Its continued use in this hospital has been able to identify the group of patients with increased risk of complications, especially infectious ones, although it was not useful in the prediction of individual risk.
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. · Nov 2008
Hospital readmissions and death from Heart Failure--rates still alarming.
Patients who require hospitalization because of decompensated HF represent a group of the most seriously ill individuals who evolve with high mortality and hospital readmission rates. ⋯ HF remains a condition associated with high mortality and high hospital readmission rates. At the end of the first year, 44.5% of these patients had not needed to visit the ER or had died, which indicates that we should provide HF patients with the best possible care in an attempt to change the natural course of this increasingly frequent syndrome.