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Predictors of operative mortality among cardiac surgery patients with prolonged ventilation.

Alejandro Suarez-PierreCharles D FraserXun ZhouTodd C CrawfordCecillia LuiThomas S MetkusGlenn J WhitmanRobert Sd HigginsJennifer S Lawton
Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2019)
Prolonged ventilation following cardiac surgery is associated with a five-fold increase in operative mortality. In these patients, operative mortality is associated with older age, intraoperative initiation of ECMO, postoperative cardiac arrest, and renal failure requiring dialysis.
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