Heart surgery in Great Britain

Last Updated: 24/06/2008

Stewart Craig

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary


About Stewart Craig

Specialties
Adult Cardiac Surgery
Thoracic Surgery

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Address:
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,,
Glasgow Royal Infirmary,
Alexandra Parade,
Glasgow,
G31 2ER

Tel: 0141 211 4000

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Practice profile for the 3 years ending March 2005

Surgeon Name Total number of operations performed Practice Profile
(the proportion of operations performed by each surgeon)
Key
Heart Bypass Valve Repair or Replacement Other
Alone with aortic valve replaced with mitral valve repaired or replaced aortic valve mitral valve  
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Rates of survival after selected types of heart operation

How you can use this information

Patients who are going to have certain heart surgery may find it useful to look up rates of survival for surgeons or units they are considering and discuss this information with their GP or their surgeon.

What it can't tell you

Your own chances of surviving a heart operation.

 Coronary artery bypass graft operations

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Statistics calculated from patients being treated for the first time.

Factors such as ill health, increased age and lifestyle can affect a patient's chance of surviving a major operation. When we calculate the expected rates of survival we take these risk factors into account. Find out more about how expected rates of survival are calculated .


 All cardiac surgery

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What is the expected survival rate?

The expected range of rates of survival shown in the white bars on each graph above reflects the overall risk of patients treated at the unit. Some patients are more at risk of dying during or following a heart operation than others. Examples of things that increase the risk of not surviving a heart operation are increased age, whether a patient has had heart surgery before or whether a patient has long term lung disease. Some hospital units treat more high risk patients than others and as a consequence of this the average expected survival rate for these units is lower than other units. More information about how the expected rates of survival are calculated is included in about this site.

How is the survival rate measured?

This records the number of patients who survive the operation and are successfully discharged from hospital afterwards.

More information

Patients: This site has more information for patients who may be having heart surgery