Perioperative Risk Factors for Intensive Care Unit Readmissions and Mortality After Cardiac Surgery.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify perioperative risk factors associated with intensive care unit readmission and in-hospital death after cardiac surgery.

Design: Retrospective analysis using a multivariate regression model to identify independent risk factors for intensive care unit [ICU] readmission and in-hospital mortality.

Setting: The study was carried out in a single tertiary-care hospital.

Acute coronary syndrome in immigrants and non-immigrants : Results of an Austrian prospective pilot study.

Background: There are indications that immigrant patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) differ in demographic characteristics and clinical presentation from non-immigrant patients. The aim of this prospective pilot study was to gather clinical and sociodemographic data from patients with ACS and to compare immigrants with non-immigrants.

Methods: Included were consecutive patients who underwent acute coronary angiography in one cardiological department for ACS from September 2011 to September 2013.