Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Hospitalized for HF at Higher Risk for AEs

Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Hospitalized for HF at Higher Risk for AEs

Adults with heart disease are hospitalized for heart (HF) have nearly 2-fold adjusted odds of a length of stay (LOS) in-hospital mortality than adults heart disease, 2005, Ninth Revision Adults With Congenital (ICD-9) diagnosis for HF (N=203, heart disease was further into complex (n=82) or (n=457). Patients with complex diagnoses assigned to the complex heart disease group. primary outcome was any event (AE).

More than 1 in every 110 babies is born with some form of congenital heart disease. CHDs are the most common birth defect, in fact. Clinicians have made great strides in improving care for these children, and even individuals with severe diseases may now live well into adulthood. However, not all survive and many still experience significant complications. “As a doctor in a pediatric cardiac ICU, we know there are things we want to do better,” says Michael Gaies, M. D. , a cardiac intensivist and director of quality at the Congenital Heart Center complex congenital heart disease at Michigan Medicine’s C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital. “We believe we can improve care for kids recovering from heart surgery if we can better control certain parts of the post-operative journey. ” The problem? Data, or rather, lack of it. “We’re a large, experienced heart center with patients travelling here from around the globe, but we knew we weren’t going to find the answers by ourselves,” says Gaies. By scientific standards, even the highest volume heart centers may not see enough patients with certain types of heart defects to allow in depth study of treatments and outcomes.

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