Project ABO TEE

We are collecting blood type and cardiac function on CICU patients for analysis of outcomes, research, quality assurance.

Collection Instructions

• Project A_T blood type
• Blood type would be collected for all patients in CICU (no matter what type of procedure they had) .... if there is a blood type in chart (which there would be), need to collect it.
  • A
  • B
  • AB
  • O
  • z not available (starts with z to sort to end)

• Project A_T LV fraction (LV ejection fraction from intra-op TEE (Transesophageal echocardiogram), before Cardiopulmonary bypass)
  • <20%
  • 20-29%
  • 30-49%
  • 50% or greater
  • z not available (starts with z to sort to end)

• Project A_T function (Right ventricular function from intra-op TEE before cardiopulmonary bypass:)
  • If the documentation says mild-moderate or moderate to severe, then coding would be towards the worse value-eg. Mild-moderate would be recorded as moderate and moderate-severe would be recorded as severe.
  • Values are:
    • Normal
    • Mildy depressed
    • Moderately depressed
    • Severely depressed
    • z not available (starts with z to sort to end)

Collection parameters

• Collected only at StB CICU
• Start Date: 2013-01-28
• End Date: planned as continuous collection without an end date
• data is sent upon final-check only

Data Use

Information will be provided by our statistician to physicians for further analysis.

• Dr. R. Manji
• Dr. A. Menkis