Cardiac Surgery in numbers

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008

Reporting center	27	28	29	29	29	28	28	28

Cardiac operations	11437	12773	13635	13694	12920	12876	12918	12356

Isolated CABG	7008	7661	7785	7422	6654	6369	6209	5759
Off-pump	1575	2062	2424	2423	2142	1992	1774	1598
On-pump	5433	5599	5361	4999	4512	4377	4435	4161
Valve only	1664	1920	2108	2221	2110	2118	2273	2385
CABG + Valve	859	1074	1292	1338	1315	1325	1417	1267

Number of major cardiac operations - age distribution
0-1	433	503	464	505	520	558	573	598
2-15	238	279	270	283	253	254	264	276
16-29	106	127	149	149	127	138	122	124
30-39	197	190	211	205	198	188	184	169
40-49	664	735	723	695	653	675	645	666
50-59	1769	2042	2137	2084	1988	2025	1943	1726
60-69	3377	3456	3758	3533	3455	3285	3339	3176
70-79	3954	4613	4898	5156	4577	4523	4515	4323
80-89	679	807	1012	1059	1079	1215	1320	1285
>=90	20	21	13	25	70	15	13	13

Evolution - mean age
>16	66,16	66,44	66,71	67,08	67,13	67,08	67,43	67,61
all ages	62,65	62,67	63,28	63,41	63,27	63,00	63,25	63,01

General cardiac surgery includes:

The traditional cardiac operation with or without ECC (CABG, OPCAB, Valve, HTX, HLTX, Ascending Aorta and Arch, Congenital )
Assist devices and ECMO/ECLS
Surgery of the descending aorta
Cardiac wounds
Pericardiectomy
Other congenital procedures such as: ductus botalli, coarctatio of the aorta, banding of pulmonary artery, Blalock/Taussing shunts....
Introduction and removal of IABP

Operations not included in general cardiac surgery operations are:

Revisions for bleeding: this is considered to be a complication
Pacemakers
Non-cardiac operations as far as this procedures or not performed in combination with a cardiac operation.