title: Experience in early rehabilitation of patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
abstract: A strategy of rapid in-hospital postoperative rehabilitation is currently a priority trend in managing the patients after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the baseline characteristics and peculiarities of perioperative treatment of patients with a short period ofin-hospital rehabilitation.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied a total of 690 patients who had endured CABG operations according to the conventional technique performed over the period from January 2007 to August 2008. The procedures of preoperative preparation, surgical intervention and postoperative management both at the stage of the intensive care unit (ICU) and at the Cardiosurgical Department in all the patients were carried out in accordance with the accepted protocol.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Study Group (Group 1) comprised a total of eighty-three 39-to-79-year-old (average age 55.7 +/- 7.9 years) patients whose postoperative hospital stay amounted to 8.1 +/- 1.3 days. Of these, there were 76 men and 7 women. The Comparison Group (Group 2) was composed of one hundred 39-to-76-year-old (mean age 56.2 +/- 8.3 years) patients, with 89 men and 11 women enrolled. The duration of the postoperative hospital stay in the Comparison Group amounted to 12 +/- 1.4 days (p < 0.05). All the operated patients according to the findings of coronary angiography (CAG) had had haemodynamically significant atherosclerotic lesions of three and more coronary arteries. The patients in both Groups were comparable by the main clinical characteristics. There were no patients with recently sustained myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or left-ventricular aneurysms in either of the groups studied.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Employing the protocol we devised makes it possible to reduce the postoperative hospital stay to 7 days in electively operated patients presenting with a stable course of coronary artery disease (CAD), without pronounced co-existing pathology, with a satisfactory left-ventricular systolic function, with preoperatively compensated diabetes mellitus (DM) and adequately controlled arterial hypertension (AH).
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Scientific Research Institute of Clinical Cardiology, Russian Cardiological Research-and-Production Complex, Russian Federal Agency on High-Technology Medical Care, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Vlasova
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Komlev
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Vasil'ev
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Shiriaev
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lepilin
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Akchurin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000150:complications; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013997:Time Factors