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Why are thoracic operations postponed?
AIM: To investigate and present the reasons that cause the postponement of thoracic surgical operations. METHODS: We retrospectively included in the study all patients submitted to elective thoracic surgery in our department during the 4-year period 2007-2010 and noted all cases of postponement afte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22494485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-31 |
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author | Tagarakis, Georgios I Voucharas, Christos Simopoulos, Vassilios Karangelis, Dimos Daskalopoulos, Marios E Parisis, Charalampos Tsantilas, Apostolos Sataitidis, Ilias Lampoura, Stefania Vretzakis, Georgios Tsilimingas, Nikolaos B |
author_facet | Tagarakis, Georgios I Voucharas, Christos Simopoulos, Vassilios Karangelis, Dimos Daskalopoulos, Marios E Parisis, Charalampos Tsantilas, Apostolos Sataitidis, Ilias Lampoura, Stefania Vretzakis, Georgios Tsilimingas, Nikolaos B |
author_sort | Tagarakis, Georgios I |
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description | AIM: To investigate and present the reasons that cause the postponement of thoracic surgical operations. METHODS: We retrospectively included in the study all patients submitted to elective thoracic surgery in our department during the 4-year period 2007-2010 and noted all cases of postponement after official inclusion in the operating schedule. RESULTS: 81 out of a total of 542 patients (14.9%) scheduled for elective thoracic operation had their procedure postponed. The reasons were mainly organisatory (in 42 cases, 51.85%), which in order of significance were: shortage in matching erythrocyte units, shortage in anaesthetic/nursing staff and unavailability in operating rooms. The rest of the cases (39, 48.1%) were postponed due to medical reasons, which in descending order of significance were: respiratory infections and exacerbations of COPD, cardiological problems, misregulation of antiplatelet/antithrombotic drugs and infections from other systems (gastrointestinal, urinary, etc.). Elderly male patients planned for major/oncologic surgery were most possible to have their operation postponed for medical reasons. DISCUSSION-CONCLUSIONS: Thoracic operations are postponed owed to organisatory as well as medical reasons, the latter mainly affecting elderly, morbid patients awaiting for major/oncologic surgery. |
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spelling | pubmed-33513662012-05-15 Why are thoracic operations postponed? Tagarakis, Georgios I Voucharas, Christos Simopoulos, Vassilios Karangelis, Dimos Daskalopoulos, Marios E Parisis, Charalampos Tsantilas, Apostolos Sataitidis, Ilias Lampoura, Stefania Vretzakis, Georgios Tsilimingas, Nikolaos B J Cardiothorac Surg Research Article AIM: To investigate and present the reasons that cause the postponement of thoracic surgical operations. METHODS: We retrospectively included in the study all patients submitted to elective thoracic surgery in our department during the 4-year period 2007-2010 and noted all cases of postponement after official inclusion in the operating schedule. RESULTS: 81 out of a total of 542 patients (14.9%) scheduled for elective thoracic operation had their procedure postponed. The reasons were mainly organisatory (in 42 cases, 51.85%), which in order of significance were: shortage in matching erythrocyte units, shortage in anaesthetic/nursing staff and unavailability in operating rooms. The rest of the cases (39, 48.1%) were postponed due to medical reasons, which in descending order of significance were: respiratory infections and exacerbations of COPD, cardiological problems, misregulation of antiplatelet/antithrombotic drugs and infections from other systems (gastrointestinal, urinary, etc.). Elderly male patients planned for major/oncologic surgery were most possible to have their operation postponed for medical reasons. DISCUSSION-CONCLUSIONS: Thoracic operations are postponed owed to organisatory as well as medical reasons, the latter mainly affecting elderly, morbid patients awaiting for major/oncologic surgery. BioMed Central 2012-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3351366/ /pubmed/22494485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-31 Text en Copyright ©2012 Tagarakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tagarakis, Georgios I Voucharas, Christos Simopoulos, Vassilios Karangelis, Dimos Daskalopoulos, Marios E Parisis, Charalampos Tsantilas, Apostolos Sataitidis, Ilias Lampoura, Stefania Vretzakis, Georgios Tsilimingas, Nikolaos B Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title | Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title_full | Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title_fullStr | Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title_full_unstemmed | Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title_short | Why are thoracic operations postponed? |
title_sort | why are thoracic operations postponed? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22494485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-7-31 |
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