Stacey Welsh

TL;DR: Nearly 1 of 5 patients who undergo cardiac operations require readmission, an outcome with significant health and economic implications, and management practices to avert in-hospital infections, reduce postoperative arrhythmias, and avoid volume overload offer important targets for quality improvement.

TL;DR: Glucose levels <180 mg/dL are associated with better outcomes in most patients, but worse outcomes in patients with diabetes with a history of prior insulin use, which supports further investigation of a stratified approach to the management of patients with stress-induced postoperative hyperglycemia based on prior diabetes status.

TL;DR: Statistical modeling using TTM recordings after MVS in patients with (long‐standing) persistent AF suggests that a biatrial maze is associated with lower AF/AFL/AT prevalence, but not a lower load, compared with pulmonary vein isolation.

TL;DR: Primary SSI after CABG continues to be an important source of morbidity and is associated with open SVG harvesting, larger body mass, and blood transfusions and has longer lengths of stay and is readmitted more frequently.

TL;DR: The addition of mitral valve repair to coronary artery bypass grafting for patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation is unlikely to be cost-effective and only if late mortality benefits can be demonstrated will it meet commonly used cost-effectiveness criteria.