One in five patients who undergo a heart bypass operation are not receiving the best care while in hospital and some die who might otherwise have survived, according to a new report. The study, funded by the Department of Health, found the shortcomings were not to do with the actual surgery. The problems lay most often in delays in recognising that a patient was deteriorating after the operation, delays in getting senior clinicians to see a patient and failures to recognise that a patient had other, potentially complicating, problems.
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Increase in consultants makes heart surgery safer at night - The Independent 4th June 2008
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Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report - The Guardian 4th June 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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