A first postoperative day predictive score of mortality for cardiac surgery.

Purpose: Several prognostic scores for cardiac surgery based on preoperative variables are available. We propose a new one based on pre-and intraoperative and first postoperative day variables for cardiac surgery patients admitted to a surgical intensive care unit.

Materials And Methods: Classical cohort of data consecutively collected from June 2000 to March 2003 (1,458 patients).