factors influencing prolonged icu stay after open heart surgery

Factors Influencing Prolonged ICU Stay After Open Heart Surgery

BACKGROUND There are different risk factors that affect the intensive care unit (ICU) stay after cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate possible risk factors influencing prolonged ICU stay in a large referral hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a case-control study to determinate causes of prolonged ICU stay in 280 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery...

A prolonged ICU stay after interhospital transport?

[1-3]. Barratt and colleagues studied patients transferred for nonclinical reasons to evaluate the consequences of transportation [4]. Th ere was no diff erence in mortality but the ICU length of stay (LOS) increased by 3 days, which was explained as a negative impact of the transport on patient physiology. We disagree with this conclusion. First, by including only transports to level 3 ICUs th...

Systematic review of factors influencing length of stay in ICU after adult cardiac surgery

BACKGROUND Intensive care unit (ICU) care is associated with costly and often scarce resources. In many parts of the world, ICUs are being perceived as major bottlenecks limiting downstream services such as operating theatres. There are many clinical, surgical and contextual factors that influence length of stay. Knowing these factors can facilitate resource planning. However, the extent at whi...

Successful prolonged resuscitation after open heart surgery.

Factors contributing to a prolonged stay after ambulatory surgery.

UNLABELLED We identified predictors for prolonged postoperative stay after ambulatory surgery using multiple logistic regression models. We collected perioperative data for 16,411 ambulatory surgical patients. A log-transformed time to discharge variable was modeled by multiple linear regression, including patient-, anesthesia-, and surgery-specific variables. The impact of hypothetical elimina...

Factors associated with prolonged ICU stay: a retrospective analysis

P1 Bone morphogenetic protein-2 and leptin but not endothelin-1 induce osteochondrogenesis through increasing oxidative stress in vascular smooth muscle cells Introduction Vascular calcifi cation is a regulated process, which associates with coronary artery disease (CAD) and occurs through an increase in transcription factor expression such as RUNX2, MSX2 and alkaline phosphatase (ALP), then in...