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Late Operating Room Start Times Impact Mortality and Cost for Nonemergent Cardiac

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Submitted by

Arie Blitz

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(15)00809-7/abstract

Author(s)

Kenan W. Yount, Christine L. Lau, Leora T. Yarboro, Ravi K. Ghanta, Irving L. Kron, John A. Kern, Gorav Ailawadi

The University of Virginia group retrospectively analyzed all non-emergent cardiac cases performed at their center from 2008 to 2013, and separated the nonemergent cases into two groups: "Early start" cases had an incision time before 3 PM, and "late start" cases, after 3 PM. After controlling for case type, surgeon, year, and risk, late cases resulted in greater than double the operative mortality of early cases.