作者
Niv Ad, Jessica GY Luc, Tom C Nguyen, Rakesh C Arora, Husam H Balkhy, Edward M Bender, Daniel M Bethencourt, Gianluigi Bisleri, Douglas Boyd, Michael WA Chu, Kim I de la Cruz, Abe DeAnda Jr, Daniel T Engelman, Emily A Farkas, Lynn M Fedoruk, Michael Fiocco, Jessica Forcillo, Guy Fradet, Stephen E Fremes, James S Gammie, Arnar Geirsson, Marc W Gerdisch, Leonard N Girardi, Clayton A Kaiser, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, William DT Kent, Kamal R Khabbaz, Ali Khoynezhad, Bob Kiaii, Richard Lee, Jean-Francois Legare, Eric J Lehr, Roderick GG MacArthur, Patrick M McCarthy, John R Mehall, Walter H Merrill, Marc R Moon, Maral Ouzounian, Matthias Peltz, Louis P Perrault, Ourania Preventza, Mahesh Ramchandani, Basel Ramlawi, Rawn Salenger, Michael E Sekela, Frank W Sellke, John M Stulak, Francis P Sutter, Tomasz A Timek, Glenn Whitman, Judson B Williams, Daniel R Wong, Bobby Yanagawa, Jian Ye, Sanford M Zeigler
发表日期
2021/9/1
期刊
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
卷号
162
期号
3
页码范围
893-903. e4
出版商
Mosby
简介
Objective
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in an increase in hospital resource utilization and the need to defer nonurgent cardiac surgery procedures. The present study aims to report the regional variations of North American adult cardiac surgical case volume and case mix through the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
A survey was sent to recruit participating adult cardiac surgery centers in North America. Data in regard to changes in institutional and regional cardiac surgical case volume and mix were analyzed.
Results
Our study comprises 67 adult cardiac surgery institutions with diverse geographic distribution across North America, representing annualized case volumes of 60,452 in 2019. Nonurgent surgery was stopped during the month of March 2020 in the majority of centers (96%), resulting in a decline to 45% of baseline with significant regional variation …
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