Overview
As a general surgical intensive care units of the biggest tertiary referral university of Thailand with more than 1,000 admissions/year, recently, more complicated perioperative care surgical patients were accepted with high complications, morbidities, mortality and resource utilization. Good data registration was needed to provide information for quality improvement and resource allocation. This prospective observational (crosssectional) study was designed to register patient > 18 years who will be admitted to these ICUs to explore the adequacy of these ICUs services, resource utilization (ICU length of stay and ventilator day), ICU complications, adverse outcome /ICU readmission within 72 hours after discharging from ICU. In addition, severe hemodynamic, respiratory, or neurological disturbance or complication intra and early postoperative (within 7 days after operation) that lead to ICU admission eg, intraoperative hypotension, intraoperative cardiac arrest, perioperative pulmonary aspirtaion will also be studied.
Description
This prospective obseverational study wae ans will be done in all surgical patient (age . 18 yeras) admitted to the general surgical ICU (ICU Siammitra and ICU Salad-sumang) of the Department of Anesthesiology, Siriraj Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol UNiversity, Bangkok, Thailand. After approval by the IRB of Siriaj Hospital, all information of the patients admiited to the ICUs were carefully recorded included patient demographic data, comorbidities, type of anesthesia, type of surgery, complication associated with anesthesia and surgery, type of ICU admission and course in ICU including outcome as Iresouce utilization (cost in ICU, ventilator day, ICU and hosital length of stay. Morbidity occcuring in ICU, 28 and 90 days mortality also recorded.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age > 18 years
- Surgical patients
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient undergoing cardiothoracic surgery, traumatic surgery, neurosurgery