Early Re-Exploration versus Conservative Management for Postoperative Bleeding in Stable Patients after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Propensity Matched Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postoperative bleeding requiring re-exploration in cardiac surgery has been associated with complications impacting short-term outcomes and perioperative survival. Many aspects of decision-making for re-exploration still remain controversial, especially in hemodynamically stable patients with significant but not acutely cumulating chest drain output. We investigated the impact of re-exploratory surgery on short-term outcomes in a "borderline population" of CABG patients who experienced significant non-acute bleeding, but that were not in critically hemodynamic unstable conditions.

Methods

A prospectively collected database of 8287 patients undergoing primary isolated elective CABG was retrospectively interrogated. A population of hemodynamically stable patients ex

SUBMITTER: Spadaccio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10179715 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature