What happens if a patient experiences complications during an angioplasty procedure at one of the nine participating hospitals?
In order to participate in the project, every non-cardiac surgery hospital must have a transfer agreement with a licensed cardiac surgery center. These transfer agreements ensure that cardiac surgery centers will receive and treat any patients that require surgery as a result of complications arising from an angioplasty procedure. In addition, a number of New Jersey’s 18 cardiac surgery centers are participating in the project themselves. As required by the study protocols, 25% of the patients are randomly selected to receive their elective angioplasty at a cardiac surgery center and a number of such centers have elected to participate in this project. This enables C-PORT-E researchers to effectively compare outcomes between patients treated at facilities without cardiac surgery back-up and those with cardiac surgery capabilities in the safest possible manner.
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