Peri-operative Prediction of Prolonged Stay in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for Adult Cardiac Surgery

Peri-operative Prediction of Prolonged Stay in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for Adult Cardiac Surgery With Cardiopulmonary Bypass

The purpose of this study is to create a model using intra-operative modified SOFA score and peri-operative clinical factors to predict prolonged stay in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) for adult cardiac surgery with heart-lung machine

Cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is commonly associated with a systemic inflammatory response that exacerbates peri-operative life-threatening complications and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes. These features can prolong the stay in the CICU. Many peri-operative clinical risk factors contribute to those adverse outcomes resulting in prolonged CICU stay. If the investigators can create a model to identify the effects of these intra-operative clinical risk factors to prolonged CICU stay

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patients who had undergone elective cardiac surgery with CPB

Exclusion Criteria:

• under 18 years of age
• needing emergency surgery
• needing intra-aortic balloon pump