Effect of hospital and surgeon procedure volumes on the incidence of intraoperative conversion during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting

This study therefore evaluated the effect of procedure volume on the incidence of conversion in OPCAB using nationwide data. We analyzed 31,361 patients who underwent primary, non-emergent, isolated OPCAB during 2013 –2016 reported in the Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database.
Source: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: ADULT – Original Submission Source Type: research