Association of pulmonary artery catheter with in-hospital outcomes after cardiac surgery in the United States: National Inpatient Sample 1999-2019.

ABSTRACT: To examine associations of pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) use with in-hospital death and hospital length of stay (days) overall and within subgroups of hospitalized cardiac surgery patients. Secondary analyses of 1999-2019 National Inpatient Sample data were performed using 969,034 records (68% male, mean age: 65 years) representing adult cardiac surgery patients in the United States. A subgroup of 323,929 records corresponded to patients with congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, mitral/tricuspid valve disease and/or combined surgeries. We evaluated PAC in relation to clinical outcomes using regression and targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE). Hospitalized cardiac surgery patients experienced more in-hospital deaths and longer stays if they had ≥ 1 subgroup character

SUBMITTER: Beydoun HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10439892 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature