Validation of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) in North American cardiac surgerySamer A M Nashef
Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 22:101-5. 2002
..To assess the performance of the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) when applied in a North American cardiac surgical population...
Cardiac surgery in nonagenarians: single-centre series and reviewMathew R Guilfoyle
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Gerontology 56:378-84. 2010
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- Death in low-risk cardiac surgery: the failure to achieve a satisfactory cardiac outcome (FIASCO) study
Darren H Freed
Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 9:623-5. 2009
..Despite an extremely low mortality in the low-risk group FIASCO still accounts for nearly one-half of deaths. This suggests that mortality may be reduced even further as part of a quality improvement programme...
- A randomized controlled trial of cell salvage in routine cardiac surgery
Andrew A Klein
Department of Anaesthesia, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB23 3RE, UK
Anesth Analg 107:1487-95. 2008
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- The current role of EuroSCORE
Samer A M Nashef
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 24:11-2. 2012
..The current status of risk modeling is briefly reviewed with emphasis on the role of EuroSCORE in the current era...
- EuroSCORE II
Samer A M Nashef
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 41:734-44; discussion 744-5. 2012
..To update the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) risk model...
- A case-control analysis of readmissions to the cardiac surgical intensive care unit
Darryl A Chung
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 22:282-6. 2002
..Parsonnet or EuroSCORE risk stratification models in combination with obesity, operative urgency, resternotomy and respiratory indices at time of intended ICU discharge are strongly associated with readmission to ICU...
- Outcomes of cardiac surgery in the elderly
Nigel E Drury
Papworth Hospital, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 4:535-42. 2006
..Recent advances may also provide surgical options for the emerging epidemics of cardiovascular disease affecting the elderly, atrial fibrillation and heart failure...
- Is cardiac surgery now a geriatric specialty?
Samer A M Nashef
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Crit Care Resusc 9:248-50. 2007
..Current trends suggest that both the provision and range of cardiac surgical services for the elderly may increase further. Despite this, there is still evidence of reluctance in considering older patients for cardiac surgery...
- Blood, sweat, toil, and tears of surgical training. Part I: Blood
Andrew J Drain
Department of Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge CB3 8RE, United Kingdom
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 15:307-9. 2007
..Cardiac surgical training can be achieved without an adverse effect on blood loss, but it may be associated with a higher rate of re-intervention for bleeding...
- Invited commentary
Samer A M Nashef
Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB3 8RE United Kingdom
Ann Thorac Surg 82:2088. 2006
- Preoperative risk prediction and intraoperative events in cardiac surgery
Serban C Stoica
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB3 8RE, UK
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 21:41-6. 2002
..756) to 0.757 (0.719, 0.795). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of adverse intraoperative events enhances preoperative risk prediction. This type of analysis could be used for identifying "near miss" outcomes in adult cardiac surgery...
- Risk factor identification and mortality prediction in cardiac surgery using artificial neural networks
Johan Nilsson
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 132:12-9. 2006
..This study aimed to develop a method to select risk variables and predict mortality after cardiac surgery by using artificial neural networks...
- Logistic or additive EuroSCORE for high-risk patients?
Philippe Michel
University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 23:684-7; discussion 687. 2003
..To assess whether the use of the full logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) is superior to the standard additive EuroSCORE in predicting mortality in high-risk cardiac surgical patients...
- Impact of cardiothoracic resident turnover on mortality after cardiac surgery: a dynamic human factor
Jeffrey H Shuhaiber
Papworth Hospital NHS Trust and MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ann Thorac Surg 86:123-30; discussion 130-1. 2008
..The study was designed to determine whether cardiac surgical outcomes are affected during times of major turnover of cardiothoracic resident surgical staff and at the beginning versus the end of their training periods...
- Cardiac surgery risk models: a position article
David M Shahian
Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts 01805, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 78:1868-77. 2004
..Risk models may be used to assess the impact of specific predictors on outcome, to aid in patient counseling and treatment selection, to profile provider quality, and to serve as the basis of continuous quality improvement activities...
- Aortic valve replacement: is there an implant size variation across Europe?
Emmanouil I Kapetanakis
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
J Heart Valve Dis 17:200-5. 2008
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- Total arterial revascularization is safe: multicenter ten-year analysis of 71,470 coronary procedures
Roger J F Baskett
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ann Thorac Surg 81:1243-8. 2006
..The purpose of this study was to assess the use of arterial revascularization and to compare the in-hospital mortality with other CABG grafting strategies...
Should surgeons take a break after an intraoperative death? Attitude survey and outcome evaluationAntony R Goldstone
MRC Cancer Cell Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2XZ
BMJ 328:379. 2004
..To investigate attitudes of cardiac surgeons and anaesthetists towards working immediately after an intraoperative death and to establish whether an intraoperative death affects the outcome of subsequent surgery...
- Risk modelling for heart valve disease
Samer A M Nashef
J Heart Valve Dis 16:107-8. 2007
- Regional differences in surgical heart valve disease in Europe: comparison between northern and southern subsets of the EuroSCORE database
Francois Roques
Hopital La Meynard, Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies
J Heart Valve Dis 12:1-6. 2003
..CONCLUSION: Despite large epidemiological differences between northern and southern Europe in terms of valve surgery, performances and outcomes were similar when individual risk factors and overall risk profiles were taken into account...
- Risk assessment, league tables, and report cards: where is true quality monitoring?
Samer A M Nashef
Ann Thorac Surg 74:1748-9; author reply 1749. 2002
- Against the odds: long-term outcome of drastic-risk cardiac surgery
Serban Stoica
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 132:1226-8. 2006
