Vital Statistics in Adult Cardiac Surgery, Ischemic Heart Disease and Vascular Disease (Infographic)

Check out our latest volumes and outcomes data

Below we share recent volumes and clinical outcomes from a sampling of areas in Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute: adult cardiac surgery, ischemic heart disease and vascular disease.

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ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY

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CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; AVR = aortic valve replacement; MVRR = mitral valve repair/replacement; TAVR = transcatheter aortic valve replacement
STS = Society of Thoracic Surgeons; ACC = American College of Cardiology; TVT = Transcatheter Valve Therapy

In-Hospital Mortality, First Half of 2023

(1/1/2023-6/30/2023)

tabular chart with mortality rates
CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; AVR = aortic valve replacement; MVR = mitral valve replacement; MV = mitral valve; STS = Society of Thoracic Surgeons

ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Surgical Treatment

1,821 CABG volume in 2022:
–1,002 Isolated CABG
–819 CABG + other
–164 (9%) were reoperations
tabular chart with operative mortality rates

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

1,527 PCIs performed in 2022
56% Same-day discharge rate for elective PCI cases in 2022

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1.17% PCI risk-standardized mortality (all patients), vs. 2.06% for similar hospitals (NCDR 90th percentile of 1.71% or less for all participating hospitals)
1.16% PCI risk-standardized mortality for STEMI patients (without cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest), vs. 2.37% for similar hospitals (NCDR 90th percentile of 1.85% or less for all participating hospitals)
54 minutes Median time to PCI for STEMI patients in 2022, vs. 60 minutes for similar hospitals
95% Proportion of STEMI patients receiving PCI within 90 minutes in 2022, vs. 95.1% for similar hospitals
(Source for above: National Cardiovascular Data Registry, CathPCI Registry, American College of Cardiology Foundation, for rolling four-quarter period through Q4 2022)
NCDR = National Cardiovascular Data Registry; STEMI = ST-elevation myocardial infarction

VASCULAR DISEASE

6,596 Vascular surgery procedures performed in Northeast Ohio in 2022
tabular chart with vascular procedural mortality rates

2022 Mortality Rates for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair

0% Elective open AAA repair (N = 112)
12.5% Ruptured open AAA repair (N = 24)
0% Elective endovascular AAA repair (N = 79)
7% Ruptured endovascular AAA repair (N = 14)

Noninvasive Vascular Lab Studies

58,389 studies performed in Northeast Ohio in 2022
bar charts with procedural volumes

Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute has a long tradition of reporting volume and outcomes data across its various subspecialty areas. For more information like the data above, visit clevelandclinic.org/hvtioutcomes and clevelandclinic.org/e15.

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