PMID: 20635713Jul 20, 2010Paper

Experience in early rehabilitation of patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Angiologii︠a︡ i sosudistai︠a︡ khirurgii︠a︡ = Angiology and vascular surgery
E E VlasovaR S Akchurin

Abstract

A strategy of rapid in-hospital postoperative rehabilitation is currently a priority trend in managing the patients after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. To investigate the baseline characteristics and peculiarities of perioperative treatment of patients with a short period ofin-hospital rehabilitation. We studied a total of 690 patients who had endured CABG operations according to the conventional technique performed over the period from January 2007 to August 2008. The procedures of preoperative preparation, surgical intervention and postoperative management both at the stage of the intensive care unit (ICU) and at the Cardiosurgical Department in all the patients were carried out in accordance with the accepted protocol. The Study Group (Group 1) comprised a total of eighty-three 39-to-79-year-old (average age 55.7 +/- 7.9 years) patients whose postoperative hospital stay amounted to 8.1 +/- 1.3 days. Of these, there were 76 men and 7 women. The Comparison Group (Group 2) was composed of one hundred 39-to-76-year-old (mean age 56.2 +/- 8.3 years) patients, with 89 men and 11 women enrolled. The duration of the postoperative hospital stay in the Comparison Group amounted to 12 +/- 1.4 days (p < 0.05). All the ope...Continue Reading

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