title: The management of cardiac surgical patients in a general surgical recovery ward.
abstract: A suitable combination of anaesthetic and surgical techniques has allowed the safe management of post-operative cardiac surgical patients to be conducted in a surgical recovery area rather than in the intensive care ward. The results of the first 103 patients so managed (aged 49 +/- 10.7 years) are presented. Coronary artery bypass grafts were performed on 98 patients, 4 patients underwent repair of atrial septal defect and on 1 patient a pulmonary valvotomy was performed. The complications and their management are described.
authors.affiliation: St. Thomas' Hospital, London, U.K.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hutter
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aps
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hemsi
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001831:Body Temperature; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006268:Health Facilities; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008131:London; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D011997:Recovery Room; D012086:Reoperation