Valve replacement surgery
Introduction
Heart valve surgery has an associated in-hospital mortality rate of 4% to 8% [1]
List of Scales
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons risk scale Available here
- Veterans Administrative Risk Score
- EuroSCORE model
- Parsonnet score
- Ambler Score
[1] Generic, simple risk stratification model for heart valve surgery. Ambler G, Omar RZ, Royston P, Kinsman R, Keogh BE, Taylor KM. Circulation. 2005;112(2):224.