Yearly comparisons
Demographics
Gender
COVID-19 continued to have an impact on the cardiac patient throughput at RNSH in 2021, as elective surgery was reduced. This resulted in 67 elective cardiac surgery patients being transferred to North Shore Private Hospital for surgery. These patients are not included in this report.
A total of 352 patients had a cardiac procedure at RNSH in 2021. The majority of cardiac cases were performed on male patients (n = 239) compared to female patients (n = 113) .
Figure 1 compares the number of cases for each procedure type in 2020 and 2021.
Male
113 Patients Female
239 Patients
67.9% Percentage of Total
32.1% Percentage of Total
Age
Figure 2 shows the overall age distribution (2A) and by gender (2B). Approximately 70.7% of cardiac surgery patients were aged 60 years or over at the time of surgery. Patients aged below 40 years represented the smallest proportion (2.0%) of cardiac surgery patients in 2021, which is consistent with national data.
Figure 1. Yearly comparisons for procedure type (not including public in-private cases)
Figure 2. Age Distribution. (A) Overall age distribution. (B) Age distribution split by gender.
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Cardiac Surgery Annual Report 2021
Cardiac Surgery Annual Report 2021
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