The Incidence of Perioperative Cardiac Events after Orthopedic Surgery: A Single Institutional Experience of Cases Performed over One Year.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Orthopedic patients with ischemic heart disease are at risk for postoperative cardiac complications.

Questions/purposes

Using information from two medical information retrieval systems which insured the capture of all events for the period of study, our goals were to determine the incidence of myocardial injury in at-risk patients after orthopedic surgery and to delineate the type and incidence of cardiac complications in this population.

Methods

For one year, at an orthopedic hospital, we identified all postoperative patients with a measured cTnI level using an electronic ordering system. Preoperative cardiac risk factors and postoperative cardiac complications were identified in patients undergoing a total hip arthroplasty (THA), total knee arthroplasty (

SUBMITTER: Urban MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5617821 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature