Editor's Note
In this study, heart failure with or without symptoms was associated with an increased risk of postoperative mortality at 90-days and complications at 30-days in ambulatory surgery patients.
In this analysis of 355,121 patients having noncardiac ambulatory surgical procedures, 90-day mortality was 2% in patients with heart failure and 0.39% in those without heart failure. The risk of 30-day postoperative complications was 5.7% in patients with heart failure and 2.7% in those without.
These data may be helpful in preoperative discussions with ambulatory surgery patients with heart failure, the authors say.
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