Key result
Technological advances in cardiac surgery have maintained morbidity and mortality rates despite patients being older with more severe disease and greater comorbidity.
Why the study?
Improvements in medical and interventional treatments have led to older, more complex patients with greater comorbidity and higher surgical risk being referred to cardiac surgery.
Technological advances in cardiac surgery have helped maintain morbidity and mortality rates despite an increasingly older and more complex patient population.
May support technological adoption in complex cardiac surgery cases; leaves open need for prospective trials to confirm benefits.
In recent decades, there have been improvements in medical and interventional treatments that have changed the profile of patients referred to cardiac surgery. They are usually older and complex, with more severe disease and greater comorbidity, which may explain the progressive increase in surgical risk. However, there is no doubt that technological advances have also occurred in cardiac surgery, which has contributed to the maintenance of morbidity and mortality rates despite a higher risk
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Miguel‐Díez et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Cardiac surgery. Cardiac surgery was evaluated. Technological advances in cardiac surgery have maintained morbidity and mortality rates despite patients being older with more severe disease and greater comorbidity.
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