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Report of the performance of the PCS Service in 1986
20 The Unit forwarded to the UK Cardiac Surgical Register (UKCSR) the data that was available from the Unit itself. The Unit's return to the UKCSR for 1986 showed the following data for open-heart surgery: [28]
| Operations - Over-1s | Operations - Under-1s |
| 89 (10) | 24 (6) |
21 Of the under-1s, there was only one child operated on for `complete a-v canal (corrective procedure)': that child died. Only two were operated on for `truncus arteriosus (corrective procedure)', both of whom died. There was one operation for `TGA with VSD (corrective procedure)'; the child died.
22 The outcomes for the UK as a whole, as recorded in the 1986 Annual Report on the UKCSR, showed the following mortality rate for 1985: [29]
| Over-1s | Under-1s |
| 7.2% | 21.7% |
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Footnotes
[28] Figures taken from UBHT 0055 0162 - 0164 ; Unit return to the UK Cardiac Surgical Register; figures in parentheses are for deaths
[29] Figures taken from UBHT 0055 0269; UK Cardiac Surgical Register, 1986