Patient characteristics and cardiac surgical outcomes at a tertiary care hospital in Kenya, 2008-2017: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac surgeries are high risk procedures that require specialized care and access to these procedures is often limited in resource-poor countries. Although fatalities for surgical patients across Africa are twice that of the global rate, cardiac surgical mortality continent-wide is only slightly higher than all-surgical mortality. Understanding demographic and health characteristics of patients and the associations of these characteristics with morbidity and mortality events is important in guiding care decisions. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: (a) describe the characteristics of cardiac surgical patients; (b) identify the associations between these characteristics and morbidity and mortality events following cardiac surgery.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Chavez-Lindell T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8117927 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature