title: Epworth Hospital interventional cardiology audit for 2007.
abstract: The cardiac catheterisation laboratory interventional audit for 2007 showed that 761 cases were performed, treating at total of 941 lesions. Unstable coronary syndromes accounted for 59% of all cases. Coronary stenting was performed in 93.3% of cases, with drug-eluting stents being utilised 88% of the time. Adjunctive therapies included intra-aortic balloon pumping in 3.1% of cases, & 19.5% of patients received a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor. Procedural success was attained in 96.1% of cases, with an overall mortality rate of 0.53%, and a similar 0.53% of patients proceeded to surgical revascularisation in the same admission.
authors.affiliation: Victorian Heart Centre, Epworth Hospital, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. drrjdick@bigpond.net.au
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dick
mesh_terms: D002300:Cardiac Care Facilities; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D016304:Hospitals, Private; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures; D014739:Victoria