Causes involved in the suspension of patients for specialties undergoing elective surgery
| Title: | Causes involved in the suspension of patients for specialties undergoing elective surgery |
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| Authors: | Amy Torres, Yisel Durant Moran, Beatriz Ramirez Lopez, Hugo Puentes Tellez, Ileana Leyva Fernandez |
| Source: | Revista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Vol 19, Iss 3 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: | Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Editorial de Ciencias Médicas (ECIMED), 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Collection: | LCC:Anesthesiology LCC:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid |
| Subject Terms: | suspensión anestésica, evaluación preoperatoria, cancelación de cirugías, Anesthesiology, RD78.3-87.3, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9 |
| More Details: | Introduction: Suspension of the surgical intervention is a situation that causes inconveniences, goes against optimizing activities, reducing costs, avoiding loss of materials and developing the work with the highest quality.Objective: To describe the main causes for the suspension of elective surgery for eligible patients.Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out at Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso General Teaching Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, in the period from September 2017 to September 2018. From a population of 4511 announced surgeries, a sample of 1289 patients was taken, who were interrupted for surgery during the anesthesia consultation and in the immediate preoperative period.Results: The specialty of general surgery presents the highest indicator (26.9%) of the total number of suspensions during consultation; thus, of the 798 suspensions during consultation, 476 (59.6%) were due to patients, and 341 were due to medical causes (42.7%), that is, more than half of the suspensions owed to clinical alterations. The hospital was attributed 386 suspensions, accounting for 29.9% of the total.Conclusions: The incidence of anesthetic-surgical suspensions is high both during anesthesiology consultation and in the immediate preoperative period. These, together with the causes related to the patient, constitute the most relevant medical-assistance practical experience and must be taken into consideration by the acting anesthesiologist, mainly in the presence of patients suffering from cardiovascular comorbidities. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | Spanish; Castilian |
| ISSN: | 1726-6718 |
| Relation: | http://revanestesia.sld.cu/index.php/anestRean/article/view/669; https://doaj.org/toc/1726-6718 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/4b0cf1f1784c48b88bd9d9931ff612e1 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.4b0cf1f1784c48b88bd9d9931ff612e1 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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