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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;85:1986-1987. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.089
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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Hari R. Mallidi, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr, Falk Building, CVRB MC: 5407, Stanford, CA 94305

(Email: mallidi@stanford.edu).

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The literature is replete with evidence that complications after cardiac surgery are costly. They are costly in terms of decreasing the benefit of surgery in those patients who experience a complication (ie, shortened life-expectancy and decreased quality of life), and they are costly in terms of greatly increasing the financial burden of providing cardiac surgical care. As surgeons, we have known for a long time that the patients who sail through surgery without any negative outcome do better in both the short-term and the long-term. We also know that patients with a complication (regardless as to how trivial it may seem) do not have the same benefit of surgery. Although our focus has largely remained on the individual patient that is receiving our treatment, the financial implications of these complications on the global health care . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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