TY - JOUR AU - Beckmann, Andreas; Funkat, Anne-Kathrin; Lewandowski, Jana; Frie, Michael; Ernst, Markus; Hekmat, Khosro; Schiller, Wolfgang; Gummert, Jan F.; Cremer, Joachim Thomas TI - Cardiac Surgery in Germany during 2014: A Report on Behalf of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery SN - 0171-6425 SN - 1439-1902 PY - 2015 JO - Thorac Cardiovasc Surg JF - The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon LA - EN VL - 63 IS - 04 SP - 258 EP - 269 ET - 2015/05/26 DA - 2015/06/15 KW - cardiac surgery KW - outcome KW - registry KW - heart valve surgery KW - congenital heart disease KW - aortic surgery AB - Based on a voluntary registry of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS), data of all heart surgery procedures performed in 78 German cardiac surgical units during the year 2014 are presented. In 2014, a total of 100,398 cardiac surgical procedures (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and pacemaker procedures excluded) were submitted to the registry. More than 14.2% of the patients were older than 80 years, describing an increase of 0.4% compared with the previous year. The unadjusted in-hospital mortality for 40,006 isolated coronary artery bypass grafting procedures (84.7% on-pump, 15.3% off-pump) was 2.6%. In 31,359 isolated valve procedures (including 9,194 catheter-based procedures), an in-hospital mortality of 4.4% was observed. This annual updated registry of the GSTCVS is published since 1989. It is an important tool for quality assurance and voluntary public reporting by illustrating current standards and actual developments for nearly all cardiac surgical procedures in Germany. PB - Georg Thieme Verlag KG DO - 10.1055/s-0035-1551676 UR - http://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0035-1551676 ER -