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Cardiovascular Health Measurement Scales

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Scales for pre-operative risk assessment


Types of open-heart surgery:
  • Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
  • Heart valve repair or replacement (aortic or mitral valve)
  • Congenital heart defect repair
  • Heart muscle disease surgery
  • Pericarditis surgery

Objectives

The Ontario scoring system

(source: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/91/3/677.long)

  • For predicting risk of mortality, ICU length of stay, and overall PostOp length of stay following cardiac surgery
The Parsonnet score
  • For predicting risk of mortality following cardiac surgery
euroSCORE II
  • For predicting risk of mortality following cardiac surgery
Cleveland Clinic score
  • For predicting risk of morbidity and mortality following cardiac surgery

(original publication: Higgins TL, Estafanous FG, Loop FD, Beck GJ, Blum JM, Paranandi L. Stratification of morbidity and mortality outcome by preoperative risk factors in coronary artery bypass patients. J Am Med Assoc 1992;267:2344±2348.)

French score
  • For predicting risk of morbidity and mortality following cardiac surgery

(original publication: Roques F, Gabrielle F, Michel P, De Vincentiis C, David M, Baudet E.
Quality of care in adult heart surgery: proposal for a self-assessment approach based on a French multicenter study. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1995;9:433-439; discussion 439-440.)

Quality Measurement and Management Initiative (QMMI)
  • For predicting risk of morbidity and mortality following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery

Variables

The Ontario scoring system
  • Gender
  • Age
    • <65
    • 65 to 74
    • >74
  • Urgency of surgery
    • Elective
    • Urgent
    • Emergency
  • Type of surgery
    • CABG only
    • Single valve
    • Complex
  • Ejection fraction (EF)
    • EF > 50%
    • 35 to 50%
    • 20 to 34%
    • EF < 20%
  • Repeat operation
    • No
    • Yes
The Parsonnet score

Patient related factors

  • Gender
  • Age
    • < 70
    • 70 to 74
    • 75 – 79
    • ¿ 80
  • Morbid obesity
    • Yes (¿ 1.5 x ideal weight)
    • No
  • Diabetes
    • Yes (unspecific type)
    • No
  • Ejection fraction (EF)
    • ¿ 50%
    • 30 – 49%
    • <30 %
  • Hypertension
    • Yes (BP > 140/90 mmHg) or on antihypertensive medications
    • No
  • Reoperation
    • None
    • First
    • Second
  • Preoperative Intra-aortic balloon pump
    • Yes
    • No
  • Left ventricular aneurysm
    • Yes
    • No
  • Emergency surgery
    • Yes (following PTCA or catheterisation complications)
    • No
  • Dialysis
    • Yes
    • No
  • Severity of catastrophic states (e.g. acute structural defect, cardiogenic shock, acute renal failure or others)
    • One
    • Two
    • Three
    • Four
    • Five
  • Severity of other rare circumstances (e.g. paraplegia, pacemaker dependency, congenital health disease, severe asthma, others)
    • One
    • Two
    • Three
    • Four
    • Five

Surgery related factors

  • Aortic valve surgery
    • Yes (with AV pressure gradient ¿ 120 mmHg)
    • Yes (with AV pressure gradient > 120 mmHg)
    • No
  • Mitral valve surgery
    • Yes (with systolic PAP < 60 mmHg)
    • Yes (with systolic PAP ¿ 60 mmHg)
    • No
  • CABG at time of valve surgery
    • Yes
    • No
euroSCORE II

Patient related factors

  • Gender
  • Age
  • Renal impairment (creatinine clearance)
    • Normal (CC > 85 ml/min)
    • Moderate (CC > 50 & < 85 ml/min)
    • Severe (CC < 50 ml/min)
    • Dialysis
  • Extracardiac arteriopathy
    • Claudication
    • Carotid occlusion or >50% stenosis
    • Amputation for arterial disease
    • Previous or planned intervention on the abdominal aorta, limb arteries or carotids
  • Poor mobility
    • Yes
    • No
  • Previous cardiac surgery
    • Yes
    • No
  • Chronic lung disease
    • Yes
    • No
  • Active endocarditis
    • Yes
    • No
  • Critical preoperative state
    • Yes
    • No
  • Diabetes on insulin
    • Yes
    • No

Cardiac related factors

  • NYHA (New York Heart Association Functional Classification)
    • I: no symptoms and no limitation in ordinary physical activity
    • II: mild symptoms and slight limitation during ordinary activity
    • III: Marked limitation in activity due to symptoms, even during less than ordinary activity
    • IV: Severe limitation, experience symptoms even while at rest.
  • CCS class 4 angina (angina at rest)
    • Yes
    • No
  • Left Ventricular (LV) Function (EF: ejaculation fraction)
    • LVEF: > 50% (good)
    • LVEF: 31 – 50% (moderate)
    • LVEF: 21 – 30% (poor)
    • LVEF: 20% or less (very poor)
  • Recent MI
    • Yes
    • No
  • Pulmonary hypertension
    • No
    • Moderate (Pulmonary Artery systolic: 31-50 mmHg)
    • Severe (Pulmonary Artery systolic: >50 mmHg)

Operation related factors

  • Urgency
    • Elective
    • Urgent
    • Emergency
    • Salvage
  • Weight for the intervention
    • Isolated CABG
    • Single non CABG
    • Two procedures
    • Three procedures
  • Surgery on thoracic aorta
    • Yes
    • No
Cleveland Clinic score
  • Emergency case – 6
  • Serum creatinine
    • ¿ 141 and ¿ 167 ¿mol/L – 1
    • ¿ 168 ¿mol/L – 4
  • Severe left ventricular dysfunction – 3
  • Reoperation – 3
  • Operative mitral valve insufficiency – 3
  • Age ¿ 65 and ¿ 74y – 1
  • Age ¿ 75 – 2
  • Prior vascular surgery
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Anaemia (haematocrit ¿ 0.34) – 2
  • Operative aortic valve stenosis – 1
  • Weight ¿ 65 kg – 1
  • Diabetes, on oral or insulin therapy – 1
  • Cerebrovascular disease – 1
French score
Quality Measurement and Management Initiative (QMMI)
  • Age
    • < 60
    • 60 – 69
    • 70 – 79
    • ¿ 80
  • Emergency
    • Elective
    • Urgent
    • Emergent
  • Female gender
    • Yes
    • No
  • Prior CABG
    • Yes
    • No
  • Cardiogenic shock
    • Yes
    • No
  • Ejection fraction
    • ¿ 50%
    • 30 – 49%
    • <30%
  • Pre-CABG creatinine
    • < 132 ¿mol/L
    • 132 – 265 ¿mol/L
    • > 265 ¿mol/L
  • Liver disease (history)
    • Yes
    • No
  • Stroke or TIA (history)
    • Yes
    • No
  • C.O.P.D
    • Yes
    • No
  • Hypertension
    • Yes
    • No

Stratification & other info

The Ontario scoring system
Ontario Scoring System stratification
Ontario Scoring System stratification

(Adapted from: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/91/3/677.long)

  • Data collected from 13 098 patients at all nine adult cardiac surgery institutions in Ontario, Canada.
The Parsonnet score
euroSCORE II
  • Predicted mortality = e (¿o + åbi Xi) / 1+ e (¿o + åbi Xi)
  • Data collected from 22,381 consecutive patients undergoing major cardiac surgery in 154 hospitals in 43 countries over a 12-week period (May-July 2010)
Cleveland Clinic score
Cleveland Clinic Score stratification
Cleveland Clinic Score stratification

(Adapted from: Higgins TL, Estafanous FG, Loop FD, Beck GJ, Blum JM, Paranandi L. Stratification of morbidity and mortality outcome by preoperative risk factors in coronary artery bypass patients. J Am Med Assoc 1992;267:2344-2348)

  • Data collected from a retrospective analysis of 5051 patients in Cleveland Clinic Foundation, U.S.
French score
Quality Measurement and Management Initiative (QMMI)
  • Data collected from 9,498 patients who underwent CABG and no other concomitant surgery at 12 academic medical centers from August 1993 to October 1995 in the U.S.

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