Emergencies, Surgical Complication
Conditions
Keywords
Registry, Trauma, General surgery, Emergency
Brief summary
A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in a quaternary level university hospital of the Costa Rican public health system. The study included all patients aged 12 years and older who required emergency surgery by the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted through the hospital's emergency service.
Detailed description
This research consists in a retrospective cross-sectional study carried out in a quarterly level university hospital of care of the Costa Rican public health system (high complexity). The study included all patients aged 12 years or older who required emergency surgery for the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted to this center between 2020 and 2022. Only those patients who required emergency surgery by another surgical specialty during this period were excluded from the register. A non-probabilistic convenience sampling was performed, based on the pre-established selection criteria and determined by the number of patients treated in the shock room of the hospital, that subsequently received general emergency or trauma surgery in the period under study. Sociodemographic variables, hemodynamic status, period of hospitalization, related to the procedure performed and the underlying comorbidities, as well as the clinical outcome, were included in the study database.
Interventions
PROCEDUREAbdominal surgery
surgical interventions by gastrointestinal emergencies, hepatobiliary emergencies and trauma
Sponsors
Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to 100 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* The study included all patients aged 12 years and older who required emergency surgery by the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted through the hospital's emergency service.
Exclusion criteria
* . Only those patients who required emergency surgery by another surgical specialty during this period were excluded from the register.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mortality | retrospective study (2020-2022) | Mortality rate after the surgical procedure during hospitalization |
| Mechanical ventilation | retrospective study (2020-2022) | Days of mechanical ventilation needed |
| Requirement of Intensive Care Unit | retrospective study (2020-2022) | Days of permanence in Intensive Care Unit |
| Infections | retrospective study (2020-2022) | Infection rate after the surgical procedure during hospitalization |
Countries
Costa Rica
Outcome results
None listed