There are four operating rooms that run every day and a fifth available on Mondays. With “seven or eight operations” per day, that’s approximately 1700 a year — an increase of about 300 over the past five years.
“Last year, of all patients who came for heart surgery, including emergencies and dire situations, we had an overall death rate of about 2.4 per cent, 2.5 per cent,” he said. “That’s extremely low. The best institutions in the U.S. have about 2.9, 2.8, in all comers. And if you look at elective bypass surgeries, most years we may not even have someone who doesn’t make it out of many hundreds of patients.”
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