title: Interventional cardiology audit report for 2011.
abstract: In 2011 there were 658 percutaneous coronary intervention cases performed with more than 60% of the patients presenting to the hospital as an acute coronary syndrome. Most procedures consisted of balloon dilatation followed by stent deployment, and 93% of these stents were drug-eluting stents. Procedural success was achieved in 93.3% of cases and an overall major adverse cardiac events rate of 3.6%. This includes a mortality rate of (0.5%). In addition, there were 25 Core Valve procedures carried out. This is more than twice the amount of patients who had a transcatheter aortic valve implantation in 2010, reflecting the changing direction of the management of structural heart disease.
authors.affiliation: Quality Department, Epworth HealthCare, Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Leonie.Baker@epworth.org.au
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D058028:Research Report / Q000592:standards*; D016896:Treatment Outcome