[Infectious and inflammatory complications occurring after cardiac surgery in cardiac rehabilitation centres].

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are older, have complex pathologies and several comorbidities, but need to leave the hospital quickly! Therefore, the mission of cardiac rehabilitation centres has substantially changed. Indeed, if 15 to 25% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery will have a postoperative complication requiring a hospital management (infectious, pericardial, rhythmic, neurologic, pulmonary, digestive, etc.), more than 2/3 of these acute events could be managed by cardiac rehabilitation centres for a lower cost. Therefore, the quickest the patient is transferred to a cardiac rehabilitation centre, the easier the cardiac surgery centre could manage his beds. Infectious complications are the most dreadful, particularly mediastinitis.