Background: Cardiac surgery is being performed more f requently on the elderly. Wi th an over -stretched budget to care for an aging population, our objective was to determine i f we are getting better at managing these frai l patients. Methods: Insti tutional database was used to identi fy patients aged 80 or above undergoing cardiac surgery in Blackpool Victoria hospi tal NHS foundation t rust, UK between June1996 and June.2013. Outcomes between group 1(June1996-Dec.2008; n=472) were compared to Gro up 2(Jan.2009-June.2013; n=607) . Long-term survival was ascertained using NHS t racing -service. Results: Group 2 patients included more males and had higher mean age and higher addi tive and logistic EuroSCORE I. Operative mor tal i ty was signi ficantly improve d whi le other compl ication rates were simi lar. Overal l mean long- term survival was 114.1±4.1 months. Conclusions: In the past 4 years despi te the tight NHS budgets we have been able to double our workload of el de rl y pa ti en ts ’ p op ul a ti on a n d im pr ov e th ei r h ospi tal mortal i ty wi th expectation of good long -term survival .
Mourad, F., Srivastava, V., Khan, M., & Duncan, A. (2015). Adult Cardiac surgery in the elderly (octogenarians and above) - are we getting better?. The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2(2), 38-43. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2015.5329
MLA
Faisal Mourad; Vivek Srivastava; M. Khan; Andrew Duncan. "Adult Cardiac surgery in the elderly (octogenarians and above) - are we getting better?". The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2, 2, 2015, 38-43. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2015.5329
HARVARD
Mourad, F., Srivastava, V., Khan, M., Duncan, A. (2015). 'Adult Cardiac surgery in the elderly (octogenarians and above) - are we getting better?', The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2(2), pp. 38-43. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2015.5329
VANCOUVER
Mourad, F., Srivastava, V., Khan, M., Duncan, A. Adult Cardiac surgery in the elderly (octogenarians and above) - are we getting better?. The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2015; 2(2): 38-43. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2015.5329