Original articleCardiovascularProlonged Intensive Care Unit Stay in Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors and Long-Term-Survival
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Patients and Methods
This study was approved by the ethical committee of the hospital Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Germany, on July 2004. Individual consent was waived.
Results
Baseline and outcome measurements are presented in Table 1. Other demographic variables analyzed, as well as preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative risk factors, are described in Table 2.
Comment
Our study showed a significantly increased ICU, hospital, and long-term mortality in the patients with an ICU stay greater than 3 days in comparison with the patients with an ICU stay 3 days or less. However, the 6-month to 3-year long-term survival was comparable to survival in the patients without prolonged ICU stay.
Independent risk factors for an ICU stay greater than 3 days were related to perioperative risk factors such as age, catecholamine therapy, IABP, ARF-D, respiratory failure, and
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