The Analysis of Hospitalised Death of Open Valve Operation and its Countermeasures

From Jul. 1986 through Feb. 1990, 267 patients were treated with valve replacement. the hospitalised mortality was 9.7% （26/267）. the resons of death and the countermeasures were summarised. In this series the common resons of death were: low cardiac output, multiorgan feilure, infection and ventricular fibrillation.