GMC: 4127637
Hospital(s):
Special Interests: Adult Cardiac Surgery
Pedro Catarino qualified from Oxford University Medical School and trained in general surgery in London. His specialist training in cardiothoracic surgery was in Oxford and London and he trained in transplantation at Duke in the USA. He has been a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge since 2009. He is also an Associate Lecturer at Cambridge University Medical School.
He is the lead surgeon for the Papworth Specialist Aortic Service, which looks after patients with aneurysms of the ascending aorta, arch and descending thoracic aorta. He works closely with vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists from Addenbrooke’s hospital to provide a comprehensive service for patients including endovascular stenting.
He is also a member of the heart and lung transplant team, and is the clinical lead for lung transplantation.
His research interests are in clinical outcomes for aortic interventions, minimally invasive lung transplantation and gene expression in the recovering heart.
Specialist Registrar at the Royal Brompton and London Chest Hospitals, 2002-2007
Senior Fellow in Transplantation at Duke, NC, USA, 2007-2008
BA(hons) Cambridge 1991
BM, BCh Oxford 1994
MA Cambridge 1995
FRCS(Eng) 1998
FRCS(CTh) 2006
GMC Specialist Register 2008
Risk-adjusted in-hospital survival rate
This graph shows the “in hospital” survival rate of patients who are operated on by the individual surgeon/unit you have selected. “In hospital” means time the patient is in the hospital where they have had their operation. It does not include any time that patients may have spent in other hospitals, either before or after their heart operation.
The data has been through a complex methodology, including the variations in patient risk factors in order to give you a comparative base from which to work from. This means that the survival rates take into account the type and risk of patients being operated on for each surgeon/unit. This is known as risk adjusted survival.
The vertical axis shows the GMC number of the surgeon or the Hospital identifier. In brackets is the total number of patients operated on by the surgeon/unit and the percentage of patients for whom the survival is known. The horizontal axis is the percentage survival. The dashed vertical line shows the risk adjusted survival rate for the UK as a whole. The solid black horizontal line represents the surgeon/unit. What is important here is that the horizontal line crosses the vertical dashed line. If this occurs, it means that the surgeon/unit are within the expected outcomes given the case-mix and risk factors of the patients they operate on.
The icons that sit on the horizontal line should give you more information about your surgeon/team.
For example
The open square is the survival rate with no risk adjustments:
The X is the predicted survival with adjustments
The solid dot is the survival probability after the methodology has been applied.
- If the solid dot is red it means survival is worse than expected
- If the solid dot is black it means that it is within limits
- If the solid dot is green it means that there is significantly higher survival than expected
There is a lot of information on these plots, but the takeaway message is that if the solid black line crosses the dashed vertical line then the survival rate for the surgeon/unit is within expectations and that there is no reason for any concern.
A more detailed explanation about these graphs and methodology can be found here: Graph Explanations
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