No differences were found in incidence of postoperative pancreatic fistula, postoperative mortality, and operation time.
An earlier English study found significantly higher postoperative mortality following operations for oesophageal cancer in patients living in more deprived areas [ 40].
Postoperative mortality following operations for oesophageal cancer was associated with social deprivation: patients in areas with the highest levels of socio-economic deprivation had significantly higher death rates than those in areas with lower levels of deprivation.
The present study was aimed at: 1) finding associations between the general parameters of organism functionality upon ICU admission and operative mortality following cardiac operations; 2) developing a Post Cardiac Surgery-POCAS-Scale; 3) defining operative risk categories; and 4) validating an operative mortality risk score.
The goals of this study were to find associations between the general parameters of organism functionality upon ICU admission and the operative mortality following cardiac operations, to develop a Post Cardiac Surgery POCASScaleale to define operative risk categories and to validate an operative mortality risk score.
Risk stratification for operative mortality after cardiac operations in adult patients may be achieved using different risk scores [1] [6].
The present study is aimed to (i) finding associations between routine parameters at the admission in the ICU and operative mortality following cardiac operations, and to (ii) verifying if the inclusion of these parameters improves the accuracy of the standard preoperative risk models in predicting operative mortality.
In order to be able to forecast the outcome after cardiac surgery, various authors [ 1- 6] have tried to establish a risk stratification for operative mortality after cardiac operations in adult patients and have developed risk scales.
The effects on disease-free survival, overall survival, operative morbidity and mortality, duration of operation, blood loss, transfusion requirements, hospital stay, intensive care unit stay, and blood test results with prognostic relevance, will be examined.
Operative mortality 30 days after operation was 8.3% (three out of 36 patients) after D1 gastrectomy compared with 7.3% overall (six out of 82 patients) after a modified D2 gastrectomy (χ=0.037, DF 1, P=0.848).
