Cardiac Surgery in Germany during 2000

This is the annual summary of cardiac surgery performed in 76 + 4 units of Germany during 2000.

In 1978 the Society decided to set up a cardiac surgical register for the Federal Republic of Germany. For this purpose our annual questionnaire went into a number of details including the hospital mortality rates of more conventional cardiac procedures performed. The aim of the register was twofold:

to demonstrate development in and emphasis of cardiac surgery throughout the country over the years; to enable each cardiac surgeon to compare the work of his unit with that of others by giving a nation-wide standard.

For the year 2000 all 76 + 4 units replied to the detailed questionnaire. All units replied with hospital mortality rates. Thus the committee now presents the 23^th annual summary of cardiac surgery performed in these 76 + 4 units, representing the total case load in Germany [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Mean hospital mortality rates for the frequently performed cardiac procedures are described for all 76 + 4 units. A number of rare procedures are not listed, especially in the category of congenital lesions. No differentiation was made relative to the preoperative clinical state of the patients. The committee believes the results presented in the following tables are self-explanatory and important enough to make continuation of this effort worthwile.
Register 2000:

Table [1] demonstrates the development of open heart surgery in this country over the past 22 years. The distribution of all cardiac surgical procedures performed in 2000 is shown in Tables [2],[3] and [6] [7] [8].

Tables [R1/00] - [R7b/00] represent a breakdown of the results of surgery according to categories of operations performed. It should be noted that all figures with the exception of those in Table [1] are for the Germany of today and, therefore, not strictly comparable with those of previous years before the unification 1990.

In addition to the data presented in the tables above we are showing further important findings of the annual questionnaire performed.

References

• 1 Rodewald G, Polonius M-J. Cardiac Surgery in the Federal Republic of Germany during 1978 and 1979. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1980 28 373-377 1980. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1982 30/I 52-54 1981. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1982 30 127-130 1982. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1983 31 188-190 1983. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1984 32 395-397
• 2 Rodewald G, Kalmár P. Cardiac Surgery in the Federal Republic of Germany during. 1984. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1985 33 397-399 1985. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1986 34 406-408 1986. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1987 35 259-261 1987. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1988 36 180-182
• 3 Kalmár P. Cardiac Surgery in the Federal Republic of Germany during 1988.  Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon. 1989;  37 193-195
• 4 Kalmár P, Irrgang E. Cardiac Surgery in the Federal Republic of Germany during. 1989. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1990 38 198-200 1990. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1991 39 167-169
• 5 Kalmár P, Irrgang E. Cardiac Surgery in Germany during. 1991. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1992 40 163-165 1992. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1993 41 202-204 1993. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1994 42 194-196 1994. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1995 43 181-183 1995. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1996 44 161-164 1996. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1997 45 134-137 1997. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1998 46 307-310 1998. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 1999 47 260-263 1999. Thorac cardiovasc Surgeon 2000 48 XXVII-XXX