Cardiac condition with indication for cardiac surgery
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Patients with any indication for cardiac surgery
Sponsors
Universitätsklinik Hamburg Eppendorf
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Presentation in our in- or outpatient clinic at the department of cardiac surgery at the University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg (UHZ) - Personally signed informed consent or study inclusion as described under “4. Study sample” in cases of limited or absent capacity to consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Insufficient knowledge of the German language, to understand study documents and interview without translation - Physical or psychological incapability to cooperate in the investigations
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Study objectives 1. One of the study objectives is quality assurance of cardiac surgical patient care at the Department of Cardiac Surgery at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Meaningful and legally compliant follow-up of patients treated at our institution beyond the time of discharge is only possible with the patient’s consent. This includes information the patient can provide directly, as well as information derived from external physicians’ reports (provided that the patient has signed a release from medical confidentiality). Only through long-term and repeated contact can reliable data be obtained on long-term mortality after cardiac surgery, bypass graft patency rates, the rate of heart valve prosthesis degeneration, and much more. This knowledge can then positively influence future patient care, for example by affecting the proportion of arterial grafts and their target vessels in coronary bypass surgery, or by potentially adopting a more liberal indication for aortic annular enlargement in the context of aortic valve replacement (keyword: patient–prosthesis mismatch), etc. 2. Establishment of a prospectively maintained registry to address various scientific questions in the areas of coronary surgery, heart valve surgery, heart failure surgery, aortic surgery, and minimally invasive/catheter-based cardiac surgery. Analogous to purely internal quality assurance in cardiac surgery, the establishment of a prospective registry is an indispensable prerequisite for the meaningful analysis of our treatment outcomes for scientific publications. The scientific value of prospectively collected data is self-evidently higher than that of data collected retrospectively and anonymously at a single time point. In addition, it is also an objective to collect and analyze such data in a multicenter setting for specific research questions; this will be applied for separately by means of amendments as appropriate. 3. To avoid unnecessary and costly duplication of ex | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactLennart Bax
Universitätsklinik Hamburg Eppendorf
Outcome results
None listed