In Brazil, there are no large studies that reported the surgical experience of health services associated with event prediction. In this context, the study “Severity index performance in predicting postoperative complications of myocardial revascularization” provides relevant information regarding the national literature. This study shows, in a detailed manner, data relevant to the occurrence or not of perioperative complications in patients submitted to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery, correlating them with risk prediction scores. This is an extremely relevant topic that generates countless doubts concerning the patient.

Cardiac surgery still represents a huge field in the therapeutic arsenal of cardiology. Despite all the advances in percutaneous coronary or valvular interventions, many cases still remain focused on the conventional surgical approach. Currently, conventional cardiac surgery has been increasingly working with highly complex cases. This situation makes patients who are progressively at higher risk and who exhibit coronary anatomical complexity to be referred to CABG. Therefore, adequately predicting the operative risk before a procedure becomes a fundamental and mandatory step. It is worth mentioning that most scores such as EuroScore I and II or the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk score were developed to predict mortality. The EuroScore is a prognostic scoring system developed in Europe for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. What this study brings us is a complementary and differentiated assessment of morbidity and organ dysfunction in different systems, such as the cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory and renal systems.^–

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