1. Reevaluating the Cardiac Risk of Noncardiac Surgery Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
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Peterson BR, Cotton A, and Foy AJ
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cause of Death, Cohort Studies, Databases, Factual, Elective Surgical Procedures, Female, Heart Disease Risk Factors, Humans, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, Multivariate Analysis, Odds Ratio, Retrospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Heart Arrest epidemiology, Mortality, Myocardial Infarction epidemiology, Postoperative Complications epidemiology, Surgical Procedures, Operative
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Background: As surgical techniques evolve and patient outcomes improve over time, a renewed analysis of the cardiac risk of noncardiac surgeries is needed. The goal of this study was to investigate and categorize the cardiac risk of elective noncardiac surgeries., Methods: This was a cohort study of surgical data and outcomes from the 2018 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use Data File; 807,413 cases were analyzed after excluding non-elective, emergent, and cardiac surgeries. Postoperative major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were defined as 30-day all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, or cardiac arrest. According to their 95% confidence intervals (CI) for postoperative MACE, surgeries were categorized as low risk (95% CI <1%), intermediate risk (95% CI above and below 1%), or elevated risk (95% CI ≥1%). Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to determine differences in the odds for postoperative MACE for the intermediate- and elevated-risk categories relative to the low-risk category while controlling for several risk factors of prognostic importance., Results: Postoperative MACE occurred in 4047/807,413 cases (0.50%), including in 1708/667,735 (0.26%) of the low-risk category, in 516/53,499 (0.96%) of the intermediate-risk category, and in 1823/86,179 (2.12%) of the elevated-risk category. The elevated-risk category accounted for 10.7% of total procedures and 45.1% of total postoperative MACE. Compared with the low-risk category, the multivariable adjusted risk of postoperative MACE was increased in the intermediate-risk category (adjusted odds ratio 2.35; 95% CI, 2.12-2.62) and the elevated-risk category (adjusted odds ratio 3.15; 95% CI, 2.92-3.39)., Conclusion: Categorization of noncardiac surgeries according to cardiac risk may help to identify populations who are most likely to benefit from preoperative cardiac evaluation when indicated., (Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2021
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