During the nearly month - long follow - up period, there were no differences between the two groups in the percentages of patients that had a stent placed to open an artery, underwent coronary artery
bypass surgery, returned to the
emergency room or experienced a major cardiac event, such as heart attack.
In new findings published online in the journal Annals of
Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon res
Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for
emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon res
surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery
bypass graft and colon resection.
When compared to elective
surgery,
emergency surgery was 30 percent more expensive for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, 17 percent more expensive for coronary artery
bypass graft and 53 percent more expensive for colon resection.