Predictive Factors of Medical Bleeding in Adult Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Autor: Alejandro Dussich, María Victoria Vanegas
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Revista Ciencias de la Salud, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 25-36 (2005)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1692-7273
Popis: A percentage of post surgery bleedings thatleads to mediastinal reintervention do not havea surgical cause, and therefore the reinterventionwas not indicated. The objective of the studywas to determine predictive factors to recognizethe bleeding that does not require surgery.Methodology: retrospective study with 560patients, from whom 50 required reintervention forbleeding. The patients were divided in three groups: patients with not intervention, patients withreintervention and an anatomic lesion susceptibleof surgical reparation (surgical bleeding), andpatients with reintervention in whom a bleedingarea could not be identify. (medical bleeding).Results: Mortality and time of permanencein ICU was higher in the patients with medicalbleeding than in the other groups. Medicalbleeding was associated with long time ofextracorporeal circulation (p = 0,03), withcirculatory arrest of any duration (p
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