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AORTIC

Futile Transfers

Often, patients for which nothing can be done are transferred to comprehensive hospitals only to wait to be discharged back to their homes or languish in the ICU. Futile transfers often lead to lower levels of satisfaction from all sides: patients, providers, and hospital systems.

Lack of Access to Critical Imaging

Care teams are commonly required to make care coordination decisions without key inputs, including adequate imaging.

Imprecise Triage

Aortic emergencies are not always directly triaged to the specific treating physician. When the wrong surgeon is notified due to an inaccurate description, the pathway for that patient must be corrected prior to treatment. This is inefficient and costly.

Patients are often lost to follow-up

Patients who undergo guideline-directed follow-up imaging surveillance drops off quickly over time. ^[1]

[1] An K, de Mestral C, Tam D, et al. Surveillance Imaging Following Acute Type A Aortic Dissection. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Nov, 78 (19) 1863–1871.