Survival and quality of life in patients with protracted recovery from cardiac surgery. Can we predict poor outcome?
Of all the 2256 adult cardiac surgical patients operated upon during a 12-month period from 1st February 1992 in three units, only 162 (7.2%) spent more than 48 h in the intensive care unit (ICU) (median 6 days, range 3-90). There were 47 deaths in ICU, 7 more before hospital discharge, and a furthe...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1995
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