Complication timing and association with mortality in the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.

Autor: Wakeam E; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: ewakeam@partners.org., Hyder JA; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota., Tsai TC; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Lipsitz SR; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Orgill DP; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Finlayson SR; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of surgical research [J Surg Res] 2015 Jan; Vol. 193 (1), pp. 77-87. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Aug 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.08.025
Abstrakt: Background: The relationship between timing of postoperative complications on mortality is unknown. We investigated the time-variable mortality risks of common surgical complications.
Methods: We identified patients undergoing nonemergent, in-patient surgery in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database during 2005-2011 who experienced any of 13 complications within 2 wk of surgery. "Expected timing" was defined as the median postoperative day of occurrence. Hazard ratios (HRs) for complications earlier or later than expected were calculated using Cox proportional hazards, adjusted for age, procedure, American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), and functional status. A secondary analysis evaluated the effect of preceding complication burden on the relationship between complication timing and mortality.
Results: Among 77,443 patients experiencing complications, significantly higher mortality was observed with early wound infections (superficial HR 1.30, confidence interval [CI] 1.01-1.70; deep HR 1.52, CI 1.07-2.16; and organ space HR 1.38, CI 1.11-1.70) despite adjustment for patient and operative factors and complication burden. Early cardiac arrest and unplanned intubation were associated with lower mortality, which persisted after adjustment (HR 0.59, CI 0.51-0.68; HR 0.38, CI 0.33-0.43, respectively). By contrast, late occurrence of acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, and cerebrovascular accident was associated with significantly greater mortality risk (HR 1.41, CI 1.18-1.69; HR 1.37, CI 1.24-1.52; and HR 1.61, CI 1.31-1.98, respectively), but these associations became nonsignificant after adjustment for complication burden.
Conclusions: Timing of complications plays an important role in mortality. Surgeons and trainees should be aware of these patterns and tailor their clinical care and monitoring practices to account for the implications of complication timing on mortality.
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