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Prolonged Intensive Care Unit Stay in Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors and Long-Term- Survival  Ortrud Vargas Hein, MD, Jürgen Birnbaum, MD, Klaus Wernecke,

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1 Prolonged Intensive Care Unit Stay in Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors and Long-Term- Survival 
Ortrud Vargas Hein, MD, Jürgen Birnbaum, MD, Klaus Wernecke, MD, Michael England, MD, Wolfgang Konertz, MD, Claudia Spies, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages (March 2006) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curve for the follow-up period of 3 years after surgery for patients (n = 651) with an intensive care unit (ICU) stay greater than 3 days (survival, 66%; 95% confidence interval for survival time, to ) and patients (n = 1,912) with an intensive care unit stay 3 days or less (survival, 91%; 95% confidence interval for survival time, 1, to 1,033.26). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curve for the period 6 months after surgery until 3 years follow-up for the patients (n = 475) with an intensive care unit (ICU) stay greater than 3 days (survival, 90%; 95% confidence interval for survival time, 1, to 1,054.49) and the patients (n = 1,820) with an intensive care unit stay 3 days or less (survival, 95%; 95% confidence interval for survival time, 1, to 1,076.81). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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