[HSF] Death on waiting list

[Tea Acuff]

About the only waiting going on in the United States of America (no ugly "American" short hand) is over the weekend. Excepting the Veterans Administration Hospitals of course.
tea edward acuff junior medical doctor


----- Original Message ----
From: Tina i Mladen Kocica <kocica at sezampro.yu>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:59:59 PM
Subject: [HSF] Death on waiting list


Our heart surgery waiting lists (WL), here in Serbia, are permanently
growing, with today average of about 1000 people per centre annualy. It
seems that we do not make them properly, since death rate on WL is also
permanetly increasing (from 8% three years ago to 15% last year).
Questions:
1) General opinion about WL for heart surgery (ethics)?
2) Criteria? Who makes them?
3) Your annual WL load?
4) Your WL mortality?

Regards,
Mladen

Mladen J. Kocica, M.D.

Clinic for Cardiac Surgery

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases

UC Clinical Centre of Serbia

8th Kosta Todorovic St.

11000 Belgrade

Serbia

Tel: + 381 (11) 3670609

Fax: + 381 (11) 3610880

E-mail:  <mailto:kocica at sezampro.yu> kocica at sezampro.yu

URL:  <http://www.kocica.org/> www.kocica.org

URL:  <http://www.ctsnet.org/home/mkocica> www.ctsnet.org/home/mkocica

URL:  <http://www.srscvs.org/> www.srscvs.org





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