National Outcomes in Acute Aortic Dissection: Influence of Surgeon and Institutional Volume on Operative Mortality

Patients undergoing emergency repair of acute aortic dissection by lower-volume surgeons and centers have approximately double the risk-adjusted mortality of patients undergoing repair by the highest volume care providers. Routine involvement, whenever feasible, of teams experienced in acute aortic dissection repair may be a strategy to reduce operative mortality and major morbidity.