Identifying Patients Vulnerable to Inadequate Pain Resolution After Cardiac Surgery

We examined retrospective data from 2810 cardiac surgical patients at a single center. The k-means algorithm for longitudinal data was used to generate clusters of pain trajectories over the first five postoperative days.

Source: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - September 6, 2022 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Ian Kelly, Kara Fields, Pankaj Sarin, Amanda Pang, Martin Sigurdsson, Stanton K. Shernan, Amanda A. Fox, Simon C. Body, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel Tags: ADULT – Original Submission Source Type: research