Intensive care unit utilisation post-oesophagectomy.

CONCLUSION: This study shows a large proportion of post-operative oesophagectomy patients do not require ICU level support, however in the absence of a reliable pre-operative predictive tool, post-operative ICU care is still required in our setting. An individualised post-operative approach could be explored to help divert stable patients, potentially up to half of the group, away from ICU. PMID: 32078601 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research