Information provided on the boxes of surgical cardiac valve prostheses remains inadequate and should be improved to optimally inform surgeons about valve metrics and avoid patient prosthesis mismatch.
The boxes of surgical cardiac valve prostheses are routinely known by cardiac surgical operative nurses, in particular, the ease or difficulty with which to open them, but they are largely overlooked by most cardiac surgeons. This lack of interest is regrettable since these boxes could and should provide essential and useful information. However, on most of the boxes, there is still ample room for improvement to inform surgeons optimally about the metrics of the prosthetic valve they contain. In particular, as during the operation, this is the last chance prior to having actually bought the prosthesis, and to avoid problems like patient prosthesis mismatch (PPM)
Boxtel et al. (Sun,) conducted a editorial in Patient prosthesis mismatch. Information on cardiac valve prosthesis boxes was evaluated. Information provided on the boxes of surgical cardiac valve prostheses remains inadequate and should be improved to optimally inform surgeons about valve metrics and avoid patient prosthesis mismatch.
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