Table 2 Patient and procedure characteristics and causes of death in emergency and elective surgery survivors and non-survivors
Emergency | Scheduled | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 112) | (n = 787) | ||||
Non-survivors | Survivors | Non-survivors | Survivors | ||
(n = 39) | (n = 73) | (n = 41) | (n = 746) | ||
Age (years) | 70 (64–71) | 66 (54–74) | 74 (69– 81) | 66 (57–73) | <0.001 |
Sex (male) | 61.5% | 63% | 73% | 64% | 0.34 |
Respiratory disease | 31% | 8% | 32% | 14% | 0.005 |
Heart disease | 41% | 51% | 49% | 43% | 0.52 |
Chronic renal failure | 15% | 6.8% | 4.9% | 5.4% | 0.075 |
Chronic liver disease | 17% | 9.6% | 7.3% | 7.1% | 0.262 |
Neurological event | 10.2% | 3% | 9.7% | 10.5% | 0.242 |
Diabetes | 15.4% | 22% | 19.5% | 17% | 0.735 |
Metastasis | 49% | 15% | 24% | 23% | 0.85 |
ASA classification (%) | |||||
2 | 67 | 84 | 67 | 81 | |
3 | 31 | 16 | 29 | 17 | |
4 | 3 | 0 | 2.5 | 2 | 0.064 |
Charlson Index ≥ 3 (%) | 38.5 | 48 | 58.5 | 53.6 | 0.1 |
SRS | 8.7 ± 1 | 8.9 ± 1 | 7 ± 1 | 7 ± 0.7 | <0.001 |
Palliative surgery | 28% | 23% | 15% | 7% | 0.01 |
Length of surgery, hours | 2.54 ±2 | 3 ± 2 | 3.8 ± 2 | 4 ± 2 | <0.001 |
Transfusion of blood products | 5% | 4.2% | 12.3% | 3.2% | 0.003 |
Postoperative complications | |||||
Sepsis | 28% | 4% | 32% | 2% | <0.001 |
Respiratory | 61.5% | 8% | 66% | 3.5% | <0.001 |
Haemodynamic-cardiac | 51% | 10% | 49% | 4% | <0.001 |
Renal Failure | 15% | 3% | 24% | 1% | <0.001 |
Hepatic | 0% | 5.5% | 19.5% | 4% | <0.001 |
Neurological | 10% | 1% | 15% | 0.5% | <0.001 |
Reoperation | 23% | 15% | 25% | 6% | <0.001 |
Cause of Mortality | |||||
Sepsis | 10 (25.6%) | 12 (29%) | |||
Respiratory | 13 (33.3%) | 15 (36.6%) | |||
Haemorrhagic shock | — | 2 (4.9%) | |||
Cardiac | 8 (20.5%) | 8 (19.5%) | |||
Neurological | 3 (7.8%) | 2 (4.9%) | |||
Cancer | 5 (12.8%) | 2 (4.9%) | |||