Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Associations between pre‐operative iron deficiency and postoperative infection in patients undergoing major surgery ( CARIPO ): a prospective observational study
Authors' conclusion
Iron deficiency was not associated with a higher rate of postoperative infection relative to an iron replete state.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing a variety of major surgeries, tertiary university-affiliated hospital in France
- Participants
- 390 patients
- Exposure
- Pre-operative iron deficiency vs iron replete
- Iron deficientn = 170
- Iron repleten = 220reference
- Outcome
- Incidence of any postoperative infectious complication
- Follow-up
- 90 days after surgery
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
P = 0.25
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
Surgical site infection · hypothesis-generating
P = 0.01
Other types of infectious complication and all-cause postoperative complication
- Similar between groups
Original publication
Associations between pre‐operative iron deficiency and postoperative infection in patients undergoing major surgery ( CARIPO ): a prospective observational study. Anaesthesia. Published 12 December 2024. doi:10.
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