Re-Admissions to the Emergency Department after Open Heart Surgery
A Study Presented by US Departments of Emergency Medicine - It can be a life threatening experience
The study we are presenting here is from the Departments of Emergency Medicine in Miami, Dallas and Houston. It is quite recent, published in 2018, before the pandemic, and It shows that patients readmission rate is very high, around 20%.
That would mean one every five patients has a to be readmitted. But cardiac surgeons don't recognise the problem, but 1 out of 5 patients ... that should be recognisable.
So how can that be?
That is because the patients come back to the ED (Emergency Department), not to the Heart Clinic.
Some of the reasons for readmissions cited in the study are:
- sternal wound infections (see other blogs on tis site)
- pneumonia
- graft failure (sternal failure and wound breakdown)
The above mentioned complications have been prevented by using the Posthorax Sternum Support Vest, studies show.
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Link to study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30217621/
