Fast-tracking revisited: routine cardiac surgical patients need minimal intensive care.
Fast-tracking revisited: routine cardiac surgical patients need minimal intensive care.
M. Flynn,S. Reddy,5 Authors,S. Kendall
2004 · DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(03)00608-0
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery · 82 Citations
TLDR
This study demonstrates that transfer of appropriate patients to a high dependency area from intensive care following cardiac surgery is safe and allows intensive care beds to be used by more than one patient each day and allows significant cost savings by reducing the nursing ratio per patient.