Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Factors associated with resource-intensive planned critical care admissions after elective surgery in patients with a planned admission to the intensive care unit
Authors' conclusion
Fewer than 50% of patients with a planned ICU admission after elective surgery experienced a resource intensive admission. Alongside surgery type, frailty state and chronic co-morbidities were associated with resource intensive admissions.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with a planned ICU admission after elective surgery, Australia and New Zealand, 2018–2022
- Participants
- 75,390 admissions
- Outcome
- Proportion of patients with a resource intensive admission (need for classical ICU supports, ICU LOS >24 h, readmission within 3 days, or in-hospital death)
Methodological detailsmixed-effects multivariate regression
- Mixed-effects multivariate regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Resource intensive admission
Total admissions
47.8%
36 053 events
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Hospital LOS and discharge home
- Resource intensive admissions associated with longer hospital LOS and lower rate of discharge home
Factors associated with resource intensive admission
- Independently associated with increased risk: co-morbidities (e.g. chronic respiratory or renal disease), frailty, and major vascular and gastrointestinal surgery
Original publication
Factors associated with resource-intensive planned critical care admissions after elective surgery in patients with a planned admission to the intensive care unit. Br J Anaesth. Published 1 December 2025. doi:10.
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