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Impact of the International Quality Improvement Collaborative on outcomes after congenital heart surgery: A single center experience in a developing economy

Publication Type : Journal Article

Thematic Areas : Medical Sciences

Publisher : Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Source : Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, Medknow Publications, Volume 18, Number 1, p.52-57 (2015)

Url : http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84936948611&partnerID=40&md5=39f0a601b2838cc2cdcf5b57ff245d39

Campus : Kochi

School : School of Medicine

Department : Anaesthesiology, Paediatric Cardiology

Year : 2015

Abstract : Background: The International Quality Improvement Collaborative (IQIC) for Congenital Heart Surgery in Developing Countries was initiated to decrease mortality and major complications after congenital heart surgery in the developing world. Objective: We sought to assess the impact of IQIC on postoperative outcomes after congenital heart surgery at our institution. Methods: The key components of the IQIC program included creation of a robust worldwide database on key outcome measures and nurse education on quality driven best practices using telemedicine platforms. We evaluated 1702 consecutive patients ≤18 years undergoing congenital heart surgery in our institute from January 2010-December 2012 using the IQIC database. Preoperative variables included age, gender, weight at surgery and surgical complexity as per the RACHS-1 model. The outcome variables included, in- hospital mortality, duration of ventilation, intensive care unit (ICU) stay, bacterial sepsis and surgical site infection. Results: The 1702 patients included 771(45.3%) females. The median age was 8 months (0.03-216) and the median weight was 6.1Kg (1-100). The overall in-hospital mortality was 3.1%, Over the three years there was a significant decline in bacterial sepsis (from 15.1%, to 9.6%, P 0.001), surgical site infection (11.1% to 2.4%, P 0.001) and duration of ICU stay from 114(8-999) hours to 72 (18-999) hours (P 0.001) The decline in mortality from (4.3% to 2.2%) did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: The inclusion of our institution in the IQIC program was associated with improvement in key outcome measures following congenital heart surgery over a three year period.

Cite this Research Publication : Ra Balachandran, Dr. Mahesh K., Sen, A. Cb, Sudhakar, Ab, Nair, Sa, Dr. Sunil G. S., Raj, Rc, and Kumar, Rb, “Impact of the International Quality Improvement Collaborative on outcomes after congenital heart surgery: A single center experience in a developing economy”, Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, vol. 18, pp. 52-57, 2015.

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