Karolinska University Hospital has the lowest mortality rate for cardiac surgery
Karolinska University Hospital is among the best hospitals in the world in terms of survival after cardiac surgery. In 2021, the mortality rate for cardiac surgery was 1.4 percent, with 1,035 performed surgeries. In 2020, the mortality rate for cardiac surgery was 1.1 percent out of 1,026 surgeries. This places Karolinska at the top of international comparisons. For example, Cleveland Clinics, ranked No. 1 in the US for 27 consecutive years for cardiac care, had a mortality rate of 1.6 percent in 2021 and 1.3 percent in 2020.- An important factor in this is the number of procedures per