Operative mortality in adult cardiac surgery: is the currently utilized definition justified?

This study evaluated operative mortalities following adult cardiac surgical operations to determine if this metric remains appropriate for the modern era.This was a retrospective review of Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) indexed adult cardiac operations that included coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), aortic valve replacement (AVR), CABG + AVR, mitral valve repair (MVr), CABG + MVr, mitral valve replacement (MVR) and CABG + MVR,...