Cardiothoracic & vascular anesthesia
Current Status of Adult Post–Cardiac Surgery Critical Care in Saudi Arabia
Authors' conclusion
Cardiac surgery intensive care units in Saudi Arabia have varying management structures, care practices, and healthcare provider staffing models, although most of the large-volume centers are adopting the intensivist-led team model of care.
Study context
- Population
- Adult ICUs in all cardiac surgery centres in Saudi Arabia
- Participants
- 42 cardiac centres
Methodological detailse-mail survey, 61 questions, national, Survey developed by the Chapter of Adult Cardiovascular Critical Care of the Saudi Critical Care Society
- E-mail survey
- 61 questions
- National
- Survey developed by the Chapter of Adult Cardiovascular Critical Care of the Saudi Critical Care Society
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Centres with specialised cardiovascular critical care units for postoperative care
- 71.4%
- Units managed in a closed design by expert in-house physicians 24 h
- 42.9%
- Estimated cardiac surgery ICU bed capacity (beds/1 million population; range 3.0 Qasim to 11.6 Mecca)
- 7.3
- Cardiac centres/1 million population
- 1.3
- Centres/1 million cardiovascular surgical patients
- 79
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
Current Status of Adult Post–Cardiac Surgery Critical Care in Saudi Arabia. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 2 April 2024. doi:10.
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