Abstract

NAFEH ABI-REZK, Manuel et al. Rescan emergency cardiovascular surgery service Ameijeiras Brothers Hospital between 2008 and 2009.. Medicas UIS [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.1, pp.11-17. ISSN 0121-0319.

Introduction: approximately between 5% and 10% of the subjected patients to cardiovascular surgery require of an urgent reexploratión. It is the postoperative bleeding the first cause of reintervention of urgency in an operated patient of cardiovascular surgery. The present work seeks to show the behavior of the reexploratión in operated patients of heart surgery in the service and to determine which the main factors of risk were associated to this to proceed as well as the evolution and the behavior of the costs. Objective: determine the risk factors of emergency reintervention in cardiovascular surgery and to evaluate the hospital costs of reintervention. Materials and Methods: it was performed a retrospective case-control study (cases n=47, controls n=916) in the Cardiovascular Surgery Service of the Hospital "Hermanos Ameijeiras" on the period between January 2008 and December 2009. We compared variables such as: age, sex, weight, height, background, preoperative medication, use of blood and blood products, hours of mechanical ventilation, hospital stay, development, mortality and hospital costs. Results: we found predisposing factors such as male gender, ischemic cardiomyopathy, rheumatic fever, infective endocarditis, hepatopathies, history of stroke and elevated creatinine levels. Preoperative intake of diuretics, anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents was associated with an increased number of reinterventions. Reintervention was associated with increased consumption of blood and blood products, longer cardiopulmonary bypass, longer mechanical ventilation, increasedUCIQ and Hospital stay, higher rate of infections, increased mortality and increasedcosts. 81% of the reoperations did not have a surgical cause. Conclusions: there is a set of parameters that act as risk factors for emergency reintervention. Reoperated patients had higher morbidity and mortality, and represented a greater cost to the health system. The use of a thromboelastograph would represent an annual saving of $ 350 000.(MÉD.UIS. 2012;25(1):11-7).

Keywords : Cardiovascular surgery; Urgent reexploration; Surgery; Emergencies.

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