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Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Performed at Offsite Versus Onsite Surgical Centers in the United Kingdom

Monday, July 20, 2015

Submitted by

Ruben Osnabrugge

Source

Source Name: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Source URL: http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleID=2398008

Author(s)

Scot Garg; Simon G. Anderson; Keith Oldroyd; Colin Berry; Connor A. Emdin; Sanne A.E. Peters; Nick E.J. West; Damian Kelly; Kanarath Balachandran; John McDonald; Ravi Singh; Sen Devadathan; Simon Redwood; Peter F. Ludman; Kazem Rahimi; Mark Woodward

The authors of this paper investigated the outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed in centers with and without cardiac surgical support onsite in a large database in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2012. They found in multivarate analysis that there was no difference at 30 days, 1 year or 5 years. Therefore they conclude that performing PCI at centers that do not have onsite cardiac surgical backup does not carry a higher risk of mortality, both at short and long-term follow-up