Anesth Pain Med.  2020 Apr;15(2):233-240. 10.17085/apm.2020.15.2.233.

Risk factors of emergency reoperations

• Kim TK
• Yoon JR
• Choi YN
• Park UJ
• Kim KR
• Kim T

• KMID: 2500977
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.17085/apm.2020.15.2.233

Abstract

Background
Emergency reoperation is considered to be a quality indicator in surgery. We analyzed the risk factors for emergency reoperations.
Methods
Patients who underwent emergency operations from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2017, at our hospital were reviewed in this retrospective study. Multivariate logistic regression was performed for the perioperative risk factors for emergency reoperation.
Results
A total of 1,481 patients underwent emergency operations during the study period. Among them, 79 patients received emergency reoperations. The variables related to emergency reoperation included surgeries involving intracranial and intraoral lesions, highest mean arterial pressure ≥ 110 mmHg, highest heart rate ≥ 100 /min, anemia, duration of operation ＞120 min, and arrival from the intensive care unit (ICU).
Conclusions
The type of surgery, hemodynamics, hemoglobin values, the duration of surgery, and arrival from ICU were associated with emergency reoperations.

Keyword

Anesthesia; Emergency operation; Emergency reoperation

Figure

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  Fig. 1. Flow diagram of patient selection process for this study. Any patient who has received multiple operations is counted as one patient and his or her last operation is selected.

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