Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Dec 2012
Fast-track practice in cardiac surgery: results and predictors of outcome.
Various studies have shown different parameters as independent risk factors in predicting the success of fast-track postoperative management in cardiac surgery. In the present study, we evaluated our 7-year experience with the fast-track protocol and investigated the preoperative predictors of successful outcome. ⋯ Our fast-track management, called the PACU protocol, is efficient and safe for the postoperative management of selected patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Age and left ventricular dysfunction are significant preoperative predictors of failure of this protocol.