Surgical Results
Surgical results in heart surgery are scrutinised more closely than in any other field. Here at Wythenshawe we have a long history of collecting and analysing surgical data (surgical audit). Some caution should be taken when looking at mortality following surgical operations, as the most important influence on the likely survival following any given heart operation is the exact type of surgery and the patients associated other illnesses.
Given in the tables below are our mortality figures following surgery over the last few years. In all areas we are performing well. In a recent analysis by the Healthcare commission (the independent healthcare regulator) we received the best possible score for our CABG mortality, and in a publication by Dr Foster (an independent company that analyses health outcomes) we were shown to be the hospital with the lowest mortality in the UK over the last 3 years. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the department.
If you would like to see the results at Wythenshawe compared to the UK standard and other UK hospitals the specific results of individual surgeons who work in the hospital please click here.
Current results, April 2009 to March 2010
| Surgery |
Number |
Deaths |
% Mortality |
National
mortality |
Avg.
stay |
% re-
explored |
% not needing
transfusion |
| Isolated CABG |
544 |
5 |
0.9 |
1.8% |
6 days |
0.7 |
82.2 |
| Isolated valve |
251 |
3 |
1.2 |
|
8 days |
0.7 |
|
| All operations |
1035 |
21 |
2 |
|
7 days |
1.5 |
|
Results, April 2008 to March 2009
| Surgery |
Number |
Deaths |
%Mortality |
National
mortality |
Avg.
stay |
% re-
explored |
% not needing
transfusion |
| Isolated CABG |
592 |
5 |
0.4 |
1.5%1 |
6 days |
0.8 |
82.8 |
| Isolated valve |
227 |
1 |
0.4 |
3.5%1 |
8 days |
01.3 |
|
| All operations |
1057 |
16 |
1.5 |
3.1%2 |
7 days |
1.3 |
|
Notes on data presented
The Data on surgical results at UHSM have been compared to the national data presented in the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland's sixth National Adult Cardiac Surgical Database Report and the data at the CQC website.
We also believe it is important to monitor length of stay following cardiac surgery and to avoid unnecessary operations or blood transfusions, and we have also presented these data in the tables.
More detailed results on mitral valve repair surgery at UHSM
More detailed results on aortic valve surgery at UHSM (to follow).