Adding the Missing Link-Integration of Anesthesia and Perfusion Variables into Europe's Largest Congenital Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Database: Methods and First List of Candidate Variables by an ECHSA-EACTAIC-EBCP Collaboration.
Description
Gabor Erdoes (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland) as Collaborator of the EACTAIC Paediatric & Congenital Subspecialty Committee Database Group
Publisher DOI
PubMed ID
41956831
Abstract
Objectives
Numerous databases exist in the field of cardiac surgery across Europe, but none of them combine the entire captured data of all clinical specialties involved in the care process of patients, including anesthesia and perfusion. To fill this gap, the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and the European Association for Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care along with the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion propose to build a database module for Anesthesia and Perfusion data collected during congenital cardiac surgery and interventional procedures and coupling these data within the existing largest congenital cardiac surgery database in Europe-the ECHSA Congenital Cardiac Database (ECHSA-CCDB). This report will review the state of the development of this database module to date and propose an initial set of variables for collection. The report also outlines the methodology to be followed for the final selection of variables and sets a course for the start of data collection. The scope of procedures to be captured includes pediatric cardiac surgery operations with or without cardiopulmonary bypass and interventional cardiology procedures.Design
Descriptive study/methods study.Setting
Congenital cardiac surgery/cardiology/anesthesiology.Participants
Congenital cardiac anesthesiologists, surgeons, and perfusionists.Interventions
None.Measurements And Main Results
We discuss a literature review, survey, and panel meetings for the development of an anesthesia and perfusion variables module being integrated into ECHSA-Congenital Cardiac Database by identifying the first set of variables to be available for outcome research in surgical operations and transcatheter interventional cardiology procedures across Europe.Conclusions
This multisocietal collaboration will lead to the most comprehensive approach to patient outcome research in congenital cardiac surgery and Interventional Cardiology in Europe to date. The article describes the initial concept of the modules and the process steps used to identify candidate variables for anesthesia outcomes in the setting of congenital cardiac surgery.
Numerous databases exist in the field of cardiac surgery across Europe, but none of them combine the entire captured data of all clinical specialties involved in the care process of patients, including anesthesia and perfusion. To fill this gap, the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and the European Association for Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care along with the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion propose to build a database module for Anesthesia and Perfusion data collected during congenital cardiac surgery and interventional procedures and coupling these data within the existing largest congenital cardiac surgery database in Europe-the ECHSA Congenital Cardiac Database (ECHSA-CCDB). This report will review the state of the development of this database module to date and propose an initial set of variables for collection. The report also outlines the methodology to be followed for the final selection of variables and sets a course for the start of data collection. The scope of procedures to be captured includes pediatric cardiac surgery operations with or without cardiopulmonary bypass and interventional cardiology procedures.Design
Descriptive study/methods study.Setting
Congenital cardiac surgery/cardiology/anesthesiology.Participants
Congenital cardiac anesthesiologists, surgeons, and perfusionists.Interventions
None.Measurements And Main Results
We discuss a literature review, survey, and panel meetings for the development of an anesthesia and perfusion variables module being integrated into ECHSA-Congenital Cardiac Database by identifying the first set of variables to be available for outcome research in surgical operations and transcatheter interventional cardiology procedures across Europe.Conclusions
This multisocietal collaboration will lead to the most comprehensive approach to patient outcome research in congenital cardiac surgery and Interventional Cardiology in Europe to date. The article describes the initial concept of the modules and the process steps used to identify candidate variables for anesthesia outcomes in the setting of congenital cardiac surgery.
Date Issued
2026-07
Publication Type
Article
Subject(s)
Subjects
anesthesiology
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cardiac surgery
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database
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interventional cardiology
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pediatric heart disease
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pediatric, congenital heart disease
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perfusion
Language(s)
en
Author(s)
Meier, Sascha |
Kousi, Theofili |
Arrigoni, Sara C |
Jacobs, Jeffrey P |
Vida, Vladimiro |
Lotto, Attilio A |
Sarris, George E |
de Somer, Filip |
Sikora, Normunds |
Buys, Dedre |
Liebenberg, Lindy |
van Hoeven, Marloes |
Tobota, Zdzislaw |
Long, Justin B |
Vener, David F |
Rex, Steffen |
Kunst, Gudrun |
Additional Credits
Journal
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Publisher
Elsevier
ISSN
1532-8422
1053-0770
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