Results of international assistance for a paediatric heart surgery programme in a single Ukrainian centre

Cardiology in the Young
Igor V PolivenokWilliam M Novick

Abstract

Surgery for CHD has been slow to develop in parts of the former Soviet Union. The impact of an 8-year surgical assistance programme between an emerging centre and a multi-disciplinary international team that comprised healthcare professionals from developed cardiac programmes is analysed and presented.Material and methodsThe international paediatric assistance programme included five main components - intermittent clinical visits to the site annually, medical education, biomedical engineering support, nurse empowerment, and team-based practice development. Data were analysed from visiting teams and local databases before and since commencement of assistance in 2007 (era A: 2000-2007; era B: 2008-2015). The following variables were compared between periods: annual case volume, operative mortality, case complexity based on Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS-1), and RACHS-adjusted standardised mortality ratio. A total of 154 RACHS-classifiable operations were performed during era A, with a mean annual case volume by local surgeons of 19.3 at 95% confidence interval 14.3-24.2, with an operative mortality of 4.6% and a standardised mortality ratio of 2.1. In era B, surgical volume increased to a mean of 103.1 annual...Continue Reading

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Oct 2, 2019·Current Opinion in Cardiology·Igor PolivenokMarcelo Cardarelli
Sep 4, 2020·Cardiology in the Young·Igor V PolivenokMarcelo Cardarelli

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