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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:2078-2079
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, MD

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving St NW, Room 1F-1207, Washington, DC 20010-2975

(Email: emmanouil.kapetanakis@medstar.net).

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The currently available perioperative mortality and morbidity risk assessment tools, such as Parsonnet’s score and Euroscore, are exclusively based on patients’ preoperative comorbidities. In contrast, there exists no validated model to identify and assess postcardiac surgery patients’ mortality risk at the intensive care unit (ICU) bedside. Such a tool would be useful for clinicians so as to estimate each patient’s day-to-day risk status and divert ICU resources and attention to sicker patients.

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