Digestive surgery diseases requiring emergency operations
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients are included who require emergency operations for disorders of gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tract, pancreas, spleen, or peritoneum. Emergency operations are defined as operations in which the surgeons or anesthesiologists judge to start within 24 hours from arrival to improve the prognosis.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The following patients are excluded; (1) The patients who receive no treatment via exploratory laparotomy or laparoscopy. (2) The patients the primary disease of whom are found to be in other fields than digestive disorders during the operations, such as pyometra, bladder necrosis, or rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm. (3) The patients who are judged as ASA physical status V; a moribund person who is not expected to survive without the operation. (4) The patients who already admitted in the hospital and develop the new digestive disorders for emergency operations. For example, the patients had received colectomy and developed abdominal abscess for emergency operation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Postoperative 30-day mortality | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| In-hospital mortality, postoperative complications, surgical site infections, length of ICU stay | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center Center for Clinical Research