Editorial
Death on the waiting list for cardiac surgery
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Two
studies into mortality while awaiting cardiac surgery are published in
this issue1 2: one from New Zealand and one from the
Netherlands. These countries have long waits for routine surgery, as
does the UK
the median out of hospital waiting time of 146 days for
surgery in New Zealand compares with a current median wait of 175 days
for routine surgery at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, UK. The
mortality while waiting for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) in
New Zealand was 2.6%. In the Netherlands, where waits were somewhat
shorter, mortality was 0.6% for CABG and 1.4% for combined CABG and
valve surgery. This mortality was despite the usual attempts to
categorise patients according to the perceived risk of waiting for
surgery. A previous study from the UK3 reported a cardiac
surgery waiting list mortality of a similar magnitude to the New
Zealand publication. To view these figures in perspective it
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