Cardiovascular Business January 20, 2025
Heart surgeons often achieve better outcomes when the first five minutes of a procedure are especially stressful, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Surgery.[1]
This study included heart rate data from 38 surgeons performing cardiac, thoracic, digestive, orthopedic gynecologic, urologic or endocrine surgery. All surgeries were performed at one of four university hospitals in France from November 2020 to December 2021.
The surgeons all wore sensors to track their data for five minute after the first incision. While 10.6% of the procedures were cardiac surgeries, another 3.3% were thoracic surgeries. A majority of procedures were elective, open and performed under general anesthesia. The median surgeon age was 46 years old, and 78.9% were men. The median patient...
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