Patterns of cardiac surgery at Manchester Heart Centre 1990–96
| < 70 years of age | ⩾ 70 years of age | p value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | ||||||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 2856 | 74.8 | 368 | 64 | < 0.0001 | ||||
| Female | 964 | 25.2 | 207 | 36 | |||||
| Priority | |||||||||
| Elective | 2600 | 68.1 | 318 | 55.3 | < 0.0001 | ||||
| Urgent | 1106 | 28.9 | 232 | 40.3 | |||||
| Emergency | 114 | 3 | 25 | 4.4 | |||||
| Type of surgery | |||||||||
| CABG only | 3058 | 80.1 | 334 | 58.1 | < 0.0001 | ||||
| Valve only | 371 | 9.7 | 91 | 15.8 | |||||
| CABG + valve | 219 | 5.7 | 129 | 22.4 | |||||
| Re-do surgery | 316 | 8.3 | 42 | 7.3 | NS | ||||
CABG, coronary artery bypass surgery.