Race and Outcomes in Patients with Congenital Cardiac Disease in an Enhanced Recovery Program

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OBJECTIVES: Disparities in perioperative outcomes exist. In addition to patient and socioeconomic factors, racial disparities in outcome measures may be related to issues at the provider and institutional levels. Recognizing a potential role of standardized care in mitigating provider bias, this study aims to compare the perioperative sedation and pain management and consequent outcomes in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) cardiac patients of different races undergoing congenital heart surgery at a single quaternary children's hospital.

DESIGN: A retrospective study.

SETTING: A single quaternary pediatric hospital.

PARTICIPANTS: Patients, infants to adults, undergoing elective congenital cardiac surgery and enrolled in the ERAS protocol from October 2018 to December 2020.

INTERVENTIONS: None.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Of the patients, 872 were reviewed and 606 with race information were analyzed. There was no significant difference in intraoperative and postoperative oral morphine equivalent, perioperative sedatives, and regional blockade in Asian or African American patients when compared to White patients. Postoperative pain scores and outcomes among African American and Asian races were also not statistically different when compared to White patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Racial disparity in perioperative management and outcomes in patients with standardized ERAS protocols does not exist at the authors' institution. Future comparative studies of ERAS noncardiac patients may provide additional information on the role of standardization in reducing implicit bias.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Sep;36(9):3712-3713. - PMID 35778321

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia - 36(2022), 9 vom: 09. Sept., Seite 3603-3609

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Buchanan, Rica [VerfasserIn]
Roy, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Parra, M Fernanda [VerfasserIn]
Staffa, Steven J [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Morgan L [VerfasserIn]
Nasr, Viviane G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Congenital cardiac surgery
ERAS
Journal Article
Opioids
Outcomes
Race
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 04.08.2022

Date Revised 13.10.2022

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Sep;36(9):3712-3713. - PMID 35778321

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1053/j.jvca.2022.04.008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341004820