Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Cost Coverage by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).

Introduction: Cost management has been identified as an essential tool for the general control and evaluation of health organizations.

Objectives: To identify the coverage percentage of transferred funds from the Unified Health System for coronary artery bypass grafts in a philanthropic hospital having a consolidated costing system in the municipality of São Paulo.

Methods: A quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional research with information provided from a database composed of 1913 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft from March 13 to September 30, 2012, including isolated elective coronary artery bypass graft with the use of extracorporeal circulation.

[Arterial hypertension and associated factors in patients submitted to myocardial revascularization].

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence of arterial hypertension and associated factors in patients submitted to myocardial revascularization. METHOD Cross-sectional study using the database of a hospital in São Paulo (SP, Brazil) containing 3010 patients with coronary artery disease submitted to myocardial revascularization. A multiple logistic regression was performed to identify variables independently associated with hypertension (statistical significance: p<0.

Epidemiology of coronary artery bypass grafting at the Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo.

Introduction: The knowledge of the prevalence of risk factors and comorbidities, as well as the evolution and complications in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft allows comparison between institutions and evidence of changes in the profile of patients and postoperative evolution over time.

Objective: To profile (risk factors and comorbidities) and clinical outcome (complications) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft in a national institution of great surgical volume.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft in the hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, from July 2009 to July 2010.

[Evaluation of the length of hospital stay in cases of coronary artery bypass graft by payer].

Objective: The length of hospital stay (LOS) allows for the evaluation of the efficiency of a given hospital facility, as well as providing a basis for measuring the number of hospital beds required to provide assistance to the population in a specific area.

Methods: A retrospective survey was conducted on a database of 3,010 patients submitted to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) from July, 2009 to July, 2010.

Results: Among 2,840 patients that met the inclusion criteria, 92.

Independent predictors of prolonged mechanical ventilation after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Objective: To determine independent predictors of prolonged mechanical ventilation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Methods: Data of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery were included prospectively from July 2009 to July 2010. All data were input into an electronic database.