Table 2 Surgical characteristics of the study population
From: Observational study on fluid therapy management in surgical adult patients
ALL | Low-intermediate risk surgery & low risk patient | Low-intermediate risk surgery & high risk patient | High-very high risk surgery & low risk patient | High-very high risk surgery & high risk patient | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N=6314 | N=3830 | N=943 | N=987 | N=554 | |
Duration (min), Median [Q1;Q3] | 80.0 [50.0;120] | 65.0 [45.0;110] | 87.0 [50.0;135] | 100 [65.0;154] | 130 [87.0;220] |
Type, N (%) | |||||
Scheduled | 5692 (91.7%) | 3453 (91.3%) | 795 (85.8%) | 939 (97.9%) | 505 (93.9%) |
Urgent | 512 (8.25%) | 327 (8.65%) | 132 (14.2%) | 20 (2.09%) | 33 (6.13%) |
Type, N (%) | |||||
Orthopaedic & traumatology | 1795 (28.4%) | 1032 (26.9%) | 254 (26.9%) | 372 (37.7%) | 137 (24.7%) |
General surgery | 1633 (25.9%) | 1182 (30.9%) | 324 (34.4%) | 75 (7.60%) | 52 (9.39%) |
Maxillofacial, plastic & ENT | 777 (12.3%) | 626 (16.3%) | 72 (7.64%) | 54 (5.47%) | 25 (4.51%) |
Urology | 771 (12.2%) | 410 (10.7%) | 179 (19.0%) | 133 (13.5%) | 49 (8.84%) |
Gynaecology | 605 (9.58%) | 484 (12.6%) | 53 (5.62%) | 63 (6.38%) | 5 (0.90%) |
Cardiac, thoracic & vascular | 502 (7.95%) | 28 (0.73%) | 34 (3.61%) | 197 (20.0%) | 243 (43.9%) |
Neurosurgery | 172 (2.72%) | 68 (1.78%) | 27 (2.86%) | 51 (5.17%) | 26 (4.69%) |
Other | 59 (0.93%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 42 (4.26%) | 17 (3.07%) |
Destination, N (%) | |||||
PACU | 4906 (78.1%) | 3215 (84.4%) | 707 (75.3%) | 689 (69.9%) | 295 (53.6%) |
Critical care unit | 1305 (20.72%) | 547 (14.35%) | 223 (23.78%) | 286 (29.03%) | 249 (45.32%) |
Ward | 74 (1.18%) | 49 (1.29%) | 9 (0.96%) | 10 (1.02%) | 6 (1.09%) |