Waiting for Cardiac Surgery

Waiting for Cardiac Surgery

Background—The Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre uses a weekly peer-review conference of cardiovascular experts to prioritize each surgical case to 1 of 4 queues with the use of standardized criteria of coronary anatomy, stress test result, and symptoms. We examined the hazard of waiting as well as the impact of waiting on surgical outcomes. Methods and Results—Analysis was performed fo...

Managing waiting lists for cardiac surgery.

Death on the waiting list for cardiac surgery.

OBJECTIVE To describe the causes and circumstances of death regarding patients who died in 1994 and 1995 while on a waiting list for cardiac surgery in the Netherlands. DESIGN Retrospective multicentre case study. SETTING 11 Dutch cardiac surgery centres. PATIENTS All patients reported as dying while on the waiting list for cardiac surgery in 1994 and 1995. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Classif...

Reallocation of beds to reduce waiting time for cardiac surgery.

Waiting times for cardiac surgery is a significant problem in the medical world. The fact that patients' length of stay varies considerably makes effective hospital operation a difficult job. This paper analyzes patients' length of stay in hospital wards following cardiac surgery. Three scenarios for hospital management are presented and evaluated using Markov chain theory and simulation experi...

Waiting for cardiac surgery--support experienced by next of kin.

BACKGROUND Next of kin (NoK) play a crucial role for patients waiting for cardiac surgery. AIM To describe experience of support, in the form of important events, by next of kin while their intimates were waiting for a heart operation. METHODS The design was qualitative and the "critical incident" technique was used. Incidents were collected via interviews with 23 next of kin to patients wa...