Proposal of a Score to Detect the Need for Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Admission After Bariatric Surgery

Ain Shams University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bariatric Surgery Procedures

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02976649

FMASU R 19/2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to propose a multi-dimensional score to predict those patients undergoing bariatric surgeries who will be in need for postoperative ICU admission.

Full description

A multi-dimensional score of 7 risk factors was proposed which may help in identifying morbidly obese patients undergoing bariatric surgeries who will need admission to a critical care unit postoperatively for follow up.

Enrollment: 111 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who have been operated upon for either laparoscopic gastric sleeve or laparoscopic gastric bypass during the period from January to June 2016.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients were excluded in case of postoperative surgical complications, conversion to open surgery or in case of redo.