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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2016; 64(06): 462-474
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1592124
Original Cardiovascular
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

German Heart Surgery Report 2015: The Annual Updated Registry of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Andreas Beckmann
1   German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany
,
Anne-Katrin Funkat
2   Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig, Germany
,
Jana Lewandowski
1   German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany
,
Michael Frie
3   FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, Essen, Germany
,
Markus Ernst
4   Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
,
Khosro Hekmat
5   Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
,
Wolfgang Schiller
6   Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany
,
Jan F. Gummert
7   Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
,
Armin Welz
6   Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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09 August 2016

22 August 2016

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01 September 2016 (online)

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Abstract

On the basis of a long-standing voluntary registry, which was founded by the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS), well-defined data of all heart, thoracic, and vascular surgery procedures performed in 78 German heart surgery departments during 2015 are analyzed. In 2015, a total of 103,967 heart surgery procedures (implantable cardioverter defibrillator, pacemaker, and extracardiac procedures without ECC excluded) were submitted to the database. Approximately 14.8% of the patients were at least 80 years old, resulting in an increase of 0.6% compared with the data of 2014. For 38,601 isolated coronary artery bypass grafting procedures (relationship on-/off-pump: 5:1), the unadjusted inhospital mortality was 2.7%. Concerning the 32,346 isolated heart valve procedures (including 10,606 catheter-based implantations) an unadjusted inhospital mortality of 4.4% was observed.

This annual updated registry of the GSTCVS represents voluntary public reporting by accumulating actual information for nearly all heart surgical procedures in Germany, demonstrates advancements in heart medicine, and enables internal/external quality assurance for all participants. In addition, the registry demonstrates that the provision of heart surgery in Germany is appropriate and patients are treated nationwide in a round-the-clock service.

Keywords

heart surgery - outcome - registry - quality assurance - congenital heart disease - aortic surgery - transplantation
 

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