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Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
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STARSurg Collaborative, COVIDSurg Collaborative (Including: Boulton, Adam J.). (2021) Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. British Journal of Surgery, 108 (12). pp. 1448-1464. doi:10.1093/bjs/znab336 ISSN 0007-1323.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab336
Abstract
Background
This study aimed to determine the impact of pulmonary complications on death after surgery both before and during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic.
Methods
This was a patient-level, comparative analysis of two, international prospective cohort studies: one before the pandemic (January–October 2019) and the second during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (local emergence of COVID-19 up to 19 April 2020). Both included patients undergoing elective resection of an intra-abdominal cancer with curative intent across five surgical oncology disciplines. Patient selection and rates of 30-day postoperative pulmonary complications were compared. The primary outcome was 30-day postoperative mortality. Mediation analysis using a natural-effects model was used to estimate the proportion of deaths during the pandemic attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Results
This study included 7402 patients from 50 countries; 3031 (40.9 per cent) underwent surgery before and 4371 (59.1 per cent) during the pandemic. Overall, 4.3 per cent (187 of 4371) developed postoperative SARS-CoV-2 in the pandemic cohort. The pulmonary complication rate was similar (7.1 per cent (216 of 3031) versus 6.3 per cent (274 of 4371); P = 0.158) but the mortality rate was significantly higher (0.7 per cent (20 of 3031) versus 2.0 per cent (87 of 4371); P < 0.001) among patients who had surgery during the pandemic. The adjusted odds of death were higher during than before the pandemic (odds ratio (OR) 2.72, 95 per cent c.i. 1.58 to 4.67; P < 0.001). In mediation analysis, 54.8 per cent of excess postoperative deaths during the pandemic were estimated to be attributable to SARS-CoV-2 (OR 1.73, 1.40 to 2.13; P < 0.001).
Conclusion
Although providers may have selected patients with a lower risk profile for surgery during the pandemic, this did not mitigate the likelihood of death through SARS-CoV-2 infection. Care providers must act urgently to protect surgical patients from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RD Surgery | |||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Surgery -- Complications, Abdomen -- Surgery -- Complications, Critical care medicine, Respiratory distress syndrome, Cancer -- Complications, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Complications | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Surgery | |||||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | |||||||||
ISSN: | 0007-1323 | |||||||||
Official Date: | December 2021 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 108 | |||||||||
Number: | 12 | |||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1448-1464 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/bjs/znab336 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 August 2023 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 August 2023 | |||||||||
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