Adult Cardiac Database — Galway
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
N/A.
To measure the quality of care of adult cardiac surgery and provide information for quality improvement and research.
To encourage improvement of clinical outcomes for patients and to promote the importance of integrating quality improvement initiatives into daily clinical practice.
All cardiac surgical procedures performed by the team at Galway University Hospital.
All patients who attend Galway University Hospital for cardiac surgery. Galway University Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital and part of the Saolta Hospital Group which covers a large geographical area in the West and North West of Ireland serving a population of over 700,000 people within its catchment area.
**The electronic patient management system is currently being upgraded in line with the New EACTS Adult Cardiac Surgery data dictionary with planned submission of cardiac surgery outcome data to the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery moving forward. This project is in the final stages.
This is a register for all patients who attend Galway University Hospital and undergo cardiac surgery.
Clinical teams and researchers.
Below you will find a breakdown of the information collected for cardiac surgical patients;
Cardiac Surgery
Gender, age, cardiac history, previous interventions, pre-operative risk factors, pre-operative haemodynamics and catheterisation,
Pre-operative status and support, operation, coronary surgery information, valve surgery information, perfusion and myocardial protection, post-operative course and discharge details (including mortality).
https://www.eacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/EACTS-ACD-NEW-Data-Dictionary-Summary-of-Changes.pdf
No.
Gender.
Data is entered directly into the electronic register with clinical validation.
Annual basis.
N/A.
Cardiac- In excess of 100,000 procedures annually.
Annual. Published in an anonymised report.
Annual Reports published by EACTS.
No.
Morbidity and mortality cases are regularly presented at morbidity and mortality conferences with multi-disciplinary representation by departments including cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, anaesthesia, nursing and perfusion.