While the risk-adjusted coronary artery bypass graft surgery mortality rate decreased 9.2 percent from 2008 to 2009, the rate of infection increased 11.1 percent (not risk-adjusted) in the same time period, according to a New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services report (pdf).
The report, "Cardiac Surgery in New Jersey," provides data on 4,497 patients who had CABG surgery in New Jersey in 2009. The patients studied did not have any other major surgery during the same admission.
Here are some key data points:
• The average length of hospital stay for CABG surgery in 2009 was 6.9 days, compared with 7.05 days in 2008.
• In 2009, 6.49 percent of patients had some type of infection — sternal-deep infection, thoracotomy, leg infections, septicemia, urinary tract infections or pneumonia. In 2008, 5.84 percent of patients had an infection.
• Patients who got an infection from CAGB surgery had a higher mortality rate (5.14 percent vs. 1.05 percent) and a longer hospital stay (15.73 days vs. 6.28 days) compared with patients who did not have an infection.
• The rate of infection increased for every type of infection except for septicemia, which decreased from 1.26 percent in 2008 to 0.91 in 2009.
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The report, "Cardiac Surgery in New Jersey," provides data on 4,497 patients who had CABG surgery in New Jersey in 2009. The patients studied did not have any other major surgery during the same admission.
Here are some key data points:
• The average length of hospital stay for CABG surgery in 2009 was 6.9 days, compared with 7.05 days in 2008.
• In 2009, 6.49 percent of patients had some type of infection — sternal-deep infection, thoracotomy, leg infections, septicemia, urinary tract infections or pneumonia. In 2008, 5.84 percent of patients had an infection.
• Patients who got an infection from CAGB surgery had a higher mortality rate (5.14 percent vs. 1.05 percent) and a longer hospital stay (15.73 days vs. 6.28 days) compared with patients who did not have an infection.
• The rate of infection increased for every type of infection except for septicemia, which decreased from 1.26 percent in 2008 to 0.91 in 2009.
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