Report

The New Zealand Cardiac Surgery Registry was been created to record and provide analysis of publicly funded cardiac surgical procedures. This 2nd year of data collection, the report continues to bench mark against the ANZCTS dataset and used EuroSCORE II as the risk stratification tool.

The report notes that the risk adjusted outcomes and other measures of quality of care (ventilator time, ICU and hospital stay) for all five units for the two most common procedures (CABG and AVR) performed by adult cardiac surgeons compare well with internationally accepted standards. The spectrum of different operations performed is not dissimilar to other developed countries. The results of the data are very favourable for the quality of surgery being delivered nationally. The outcome of surgically treated isolated aortic valve replacement of over 99% stands out.

The New Zealand Cardiac Surgical Registry is supported by a rigorous governance structure. Each individual surgeon maintains professional development and practice audit in keeping with standards set by the New Zealand Medical Council (NZMC), the Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZCTS) and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).