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What is the association between severity of heart failure and risk of postoperative mortality among patients undergoing ambulatory surgery?
I am a myeloma survivor living with cardiomyopathy as well as atrial fibrillation (Afib). As such, my risk of mortality is higher than a normal person undergoing regular ambulatory surgery.
Knowing this, it is in my best interest to keep my heart in as good shape as possible. I don’t take any conventional heart meds such as:
It’s a long story but basically, I don’t do well with any form of conventional medications. That leaves me with evidence-based non-conventional medications or therapies shown to keep my heart as healthy as possible. Non-conventional heart therapies such as:
As a heart failure patient undergoing surgery, several therapies can help reduce your risk of mortality and improve outcomes:
I don’t plan on undergoing any surgeries anytime soon. But let’s be honest. Each of us might have to go under the knife for some reason someday.
One of my long-term side effects is steroid-induced avascular necrosis. The articles linked below give me yet another reason not to undergo surgery to fix my joints.
Over the past 30 or so years since I was diagnosed with cancer and spent several years undergoing a variety of conventional cancer therapies, I’ve come to realize that there are many ways to manage health problems OTHER than conventional medications or conventional therapies such as surgery.
That’s a big statement of course, and I have to take each health issue individually. Surgery may be the best therapy for the particular heal issue. In the case of my avascular necrosis, weekly acupuncture sessions is working just fine.
My point is that the vast majority of adults who experience a health problem assume that there is a medication or a surgical procedure that will improve or cure whatever the problem is. I’m saying that it isn’t so easy all the time.
Are you a cancer patient? Are you a cancer survivor who is struggling with long-term side effects? If you’d like to learn more about evidence-based non-conventional therapies please send me an email- David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com
Hang in there,
David Emerson
“Question What is the association between severity of heart failure and risk of postoperative mortality among patients undergoing ambulatory surgery?
Findings In this cohort study of 355 121 patients undergoing ambulatory surgery, the crude 90-day mortality was 2.00% among patients with heart failure and 0.39% among patients without heart failure. The crude risk of 30-day postoperative complications was 5.7% among patients with heart failure and 2.7% among patients without heart failure.
Meaning Heart failure with or without symptoms was associated with increased risk of 90-day mortality and 30-day postoperative complications…
Conclusions and Relevance In this study, among patients undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery, heart failure with or without symptoms was significantly associated with 90-day mortality and 30-day postoperative complications. These data may be helpful in preoperative discussions with patients with heart failure undergoing ambulatory surgery.”
“Investigators examined a cohort of more than 350,000 patients and found that patients with HF, with or without symptoms, had increased rates of 30- and 90-day mortality following noncardiac surgery…
The 30-day complication rate and 90-day all-cause mortality rates served as the primary outcomes of the study.
The secondary outcomes were 30-day
Investigators found that 5.5% (19,353) of the 355,121 included in the study had HF.
Upon analyses, investigators found that patients with HF had higher rates of 90-day postoperative mortality than patients without HF