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Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study
BACKGROUND: Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a central, high-risk procedure in emergency surgery. Patients in need of an EL present an acute pathology in the abdomen that must be operated on in order to save their lives. Usually, the underlying condition produces an affected physiology. The perioperativ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8356422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34380437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01319-8 |
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author | Jansson Timan, Terje Hagberg, Gustav Sernert, Ninni Karlsson, Ove Prytz, Mattias |
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description | BACKGROUND: Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a central, high-risk procedure in emergency surgery. Patients in need of an EL present an acute pathology in the abdomen that must be operated on in order to save their lives. Usually, the underlying condition produces an affected physiology. The perioperative management of this critically ill patient group in need of high-risk surgery and anaesthesia is challenging and related to high mortality worldwide. However, outcomes in Sweden have yet to be studied. This retrospective cohort study explores the perioperative management and outcome after 710 ELs by investigating mortality, overall length of stay (LOS) in hospital, need for care at the intensive care unit (ICU), surgical complications and a general review of perioperative management. METHODS: Medical records after laparotomy was retrospectively analysed for a period of 38 months (2014–2017), the emergency cases were included. Children (< 18 years), aortic surgery, second look and other expected reoperations were excluded. Demographic, management and outcome data were collected after an extensive analysis of the cohort. RESULTS: A total of 710 consecutive operations, representing 663 patients, were included in the cohort (mean age 65.6 years). Mortality (30 days/1 year) after all operations was 14.2% and 26.6% respectively. The mean LOS in hospital was 12 days, while LOS in the ICU was five days. Of all operations, 23.8% patients were admitted at any time to the ICU postoperatively and the 30-day mortality seen among ICU patients was 37.9%. Mortality was strongly correlated to existing comorbidity, high ASA classification, ICU care and faecal peritonitis. The mean/median time from notification to operate until the first incision was 3:46/3:02 h and 87% of patients had their first incision within 6 h of notification. CONCLUSIONS: In this present Swedish study, high mortality and morbidity were observed after emergency laparotomy, which is in agreement with other recent studies. Trial registration: The study has been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03549624, registered 8 June 2018). |
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spelling | pubmed-83564222021-08-11 Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study Jansson Timan, Terje Hagberg, Gustav Sernert, Ninni Karlsson, Ove Prytz, Mattias BMC Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: Emergency laparotomy (EL) is a central, high-risk procedure in emergency surgery. Patients in need of an EL present an acute pathology in the abdomen that must be operated on in order to save their lives. Usually, the underlying condition produces an affected physiology. The perioperative management of this critically ill patient group in need of high-risk surgery and anaesthesia is challenging and related to high mortality worldwide. However, outcomes in Sweden have yet to be studied. This retrospective cohort study explores the perioperative management and outcome after 710 ELs by investigating mortality, overall length of stay (LOS) in hospital, need for care at the intensive care unit (ICU), surgical complications and a general review of perioperative management. METHODS: Medical records after laparotomy was retrospectively analysed for a period of 38 months (2014–2017), the emergency cases were included. Children (< 18 years), aortic surgery, second look and other expected reoperations were excluded. Demographic, management and outcome data were collected after an extensive analysis of the cohort. RESULTS: A total of 710 consecutive operations, representing 663 patients, were included in the cohort (mean age 65.6 years). Mortality (30 days/1 year) after all operations was 14.2% and 26.6% respectively. The mean LOS in hospital was 12 days, while LOS in the ICU was five days. Of all operations, 23.8% patients were admitted at any time to the ICU postoperatively and the 30-day mortality seen among ICU patients was 37.9%. Mortality was strongly correlated to existing comorbidity, high ASA classification, ICU care and faecal peritonitis. The mean/median time from notification to operate until the first incision was 3:46/3:02 h and 87% of patients had their first incision within 6 h of notification. CONCLUSIONS: In this present Swedish study, high mortality and morbidity were observed after emergency laparotomy, which is in agreement with other recent studies. Trial registration: The study has been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03549624, registered 8 June 2018). BioMed Central 2021-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8356422/ /pubmed/34380437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01319-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jansson Timan, Terje Hagberg, Gustav Sernert, Ninni Karlsson, Ove Prytz, Mattias Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title | Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title_full | Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title_fullStr | Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title_short | Mortality following emergency laparotomy: a Swedish cohort study |
title_sort | mortality following emergency laparotomy: a swedish cohort study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8356422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34380437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01319-8 |
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