Duration of Mechanical Ventilation and Perioperative Care Quality After Neonatal Cardiac Operations Joshua J. Blinder, MD, Ravi Thiagarajan, MBBS, MPH, Kathryn Williams, MS, Meena Nathan, MD, MPH, John Mayer, MD, Thomas J. Kulik, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 6, Pages 1956-1962 (June 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.11.077 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier analysis–derived unadjusted proportion of patients extubated in each The Society of Thoracic Surgeons–European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (STAT) Mortality Category. The numbers correspond to the numbering of Table 6. With exposure to class 3 Technical Performance Score (TPS) and postoperative complication (Comps), there is an increasing proportion of patients extubated later across all classes of surgical complexity. (Postop Comps = postoperative complications.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 1956-1962DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.11.077) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions