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Off-pump CABG is quicker and safer? In nine experienced US hospitals, 680 off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures were compared to 1733 standard procedures. After adjusting for patient characteristics and risk factors, including severity of coronary artery disease, left ventricular function, functional status, diabetes, renal function, peripheral vascular disease, age, and priority of surgery (elective, urgent, emergent), off-pump surgery was found to be associated with a highly significant reduction in complications (multivariable odds ratio (OR) 0.52, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.38 to 0.70; p = 0.0001) and operative death (OR 0.56, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.93; p = 0.033). Off-pump surgery was also associated with significant reductions in operating theatre time and length of hospitalisation. The study was not powered to detect differences in individual complications.
1 Plomondon ME, Cleveland JC, Ludwig
ST, Grunwald GK, Kiefe CI, Grover FL,
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