Open AccessIs emergency and salvage coronary artery bypass grafting justified? The Nordic Emergency/Salvage coronary artery bypass grafting study
Author(s) -
Tomas Axelsson,
Ari Mennander,
Markus Malmberg,
Jarmo Gunn,
Anders Jeppsson,
Tómas Guðbjartsson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezv388
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary bypass , myocardial infarction , artery , cardiology , surgery , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , percutaneous coronary intervention , resuscitation
According to the EuroSCORE-II criteria, patients undergoing emergency coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are operated on before the beginning of the next working day after decision to operate while salvage CABG patients require cardiopulmonary resuscitation en route to the operating theatre. The objective of this multicentre study was to investigate the efficacy of emergency and salvage CABG.
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