Laparoscopy in high-risk emergency general surgery reduces intensive care stay, length of stay and mortality

Langenbeck's archives of surgery(2023)

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Purpose Emergency general surgery patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery are at reduced risk of mortality and may require reduced length of critical care stay. This study investigated the effect of laparoscopy on high-risk patients’ post-operative care requirements. Methods Data were retrieved for all patients entered into the NELA database between 2013 and 2018. Only high-risk surgical patients (P-POSSUM predicted mortality risk of ≥ 5%) were included. Patients undergoing laparoscopic and open emergency general surgical procedures were compared using a propensity score weighting approach. Outcome measures included total length of critical care (level 3) stay, overall length of stay and inpatient mortality. Results A total of 66,517 high-risk patients received emergency major abdominal surgery. A laparoscopic procedure was attempted in 6998 (10.5%); of these, the procedure was competed laparoscopically in 3492 (49.9%) and converted to open in 3506 (50.1%). Following inverse probability treatment weighting adjustment for patient disease and treatment characteristics, high-risk patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery had a shorter median ICU stay (1 day vs 2 days p < 0.001), overall hospital length of stay (11 days vs 14 days p < 0.001) and a lower inpatient mortality (16.0% vs 18.8%, p < 0.001). They were also less likely to have a prolonged ICU stay with an OR of 0.78 (95% CI 0.74–0.83, p < 0.001). Conclusion The results of this study suggest that in patients at high risk of post-operative mortality, laparoscopic emergency bowel surgery leads to a reduced length of critical care stay, overall length of stay and inpatient mortality compared to traditional laparotomy.
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Emergency general surgery,Laparoscopy,Critical care
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