title: Geriatric patient profile in the cardiovascular surgery intensive care unit.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine hospitalization durations and mortalities of elderly in the Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  The retrospective study was conducted in a Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit in Turkey and comprised patient records from January 1 to December 31, 2011. Computerized epicrisis reports of 255, who had undergone a cardiac surgery were collected. The patients were grouped according to their ages, Group I aged 65-74 and Group II aged 75 and older. European society for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation scores of the two groups were compared using SPSS 17.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, there were 80 (31.37%) females and 175 (68.62%) males. There were 138 (54.1%) patients in Group I and 117 (45.9%) in Group II. Regarding their hospitalization reasons, it was determined that 70 (27.5%) patients in Group I and 79 (30.9%) patients in Group II were treated with the diagnosis ofcoronary artery disease. The average hospitalization duration of patients in the intensive care unit was determined to be 11.57 +/- 0.40 days. Regarding the EuroSCORE score intervals of patients, 132 (51.8%) had 3-5 and 225 (88.2%) patients were transferred to the Cardiovascular Surgery and then all of them were discharged; 5 (4.1%) had a mortal course; and 11 (7.7%) were transferred to the anaesthesia intensive care unit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The general mortality rates are very low in the Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit and the patients have a good prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Harkverdioglu Yont, Sifa University, Izmir, Turkey. akinesra80@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Esra Akin
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Korhan
authors.affiliation: Harkverdioglu Yont, Sifa University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gulendam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hakverdioglu
authors.affiliation: Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Maryem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozlem
authors.affiliation: Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Maryem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozlem
authors.affiliation: Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yurekli
authors.affiliation: Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gurbuz
authors.affiliation: Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nilgun Akalin
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Alp
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D013504:Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies