The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE)

INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMIC MEDICINE

Purpose: To evaluate the risk for a patient having cardiac surgery using the EuroSCORE.

Gender of the patient	Male Female
Age of the patient	Years
Does the patient have a history of chronic pulmonary disease?	Yes No
Does the patient have claudication?	Yes No
Does the patient have occlusion or > 50% stenosis of a carotid artery?	Yes No
Has the patient had previous surgery on the abdominal aorta, limb arteries or carotid arteries?	Yes No
Is surgery planned to take place on the abdominal aorta, limb arteries or carotid arteries?	Yes No
Does the patient have a history of severe neurologic dysfunction?	Yes No
Does the patient have active infectious endocarditis?	Yes No
Does the patient have a history of previous cardiac surgery that involved opening the pericardium?	Yes No
Did the patient have ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation before surgery?	Yes No
Was cardiac resuscitation or preoperative cardiac massage performed prior to reaching the operating room?	Yes No
Did the patient require preoperative mechanical ventilation?	Yes No
Did the patient require preoperative inotropic support?	Yes No
Was an intra-aortic balloon pump required prior to surgery?	Yes No
Did the patient have preoperative acute renal failure, with anuria or oliguria?	Yes No
Does the patient have unstable angina?	Yes No
Does the patient have a history of myocardial infarction in the past 90 days?	Yes No
Systolic pulmonary artery pressure	mm Hg
Left ventricular ejection fraction	percent
Preoperative serum creatinine	µmol/L mg/dl
Is the cardiac surgery being performed as an emergency procedure?	Yes No
Will the surgery involve the thoracic aorta?	Yes No
Has there been a postinfarct rupture of the interventricular septum?	Yes No

click the appropriate column to indicate the type of cardiac surgery

Type of cardiac surgery

CABG only	non-CABG	CABG & non- CABG