Revised cardiac risk index and postoperative morbidity after elective orthopaedic surgery: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The revised cardiac risk index (RCRI) is associated strongly with increased cardiac ischaemic risk and perioperative death. Associations with non-cardiac morbidity in non-cardiac surgery have not been explored. In the elective orthopaedic surgical population, morbidity is common but preoperative predictors are unclear. We hypothesized that RCRI would identify individuals at increased risk of non-cardiac morbidity in this surgically homogenous population.

Methods

Five hundred and sixty patients undergoing elective primary (>90%) and revision hip and knee procedures were studied. A modified RCRI (mRCRI) score was calculated, weighting intermediate and low risk factors. The primary endpoint was the development of morbidity, collected prospectively using the Postopera

SUBMITTER: Ackland GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2982697 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature