Paediatric anaesthesia & critical care
A Retrospective Study on Time Impact of Major Trauma Patients Requiring Access to the Operating Room on the Anesthesia Department of a Pediatric Trauma Center
Authors' conclusion
Major trauma patients have a significant time impact on the anesthesia department.
Study context
- Population
- Pediatric major trauma patients requiring surgery in the OR, The Hospital for Sick Children, June 2018–October 2020of 721 major trauma patients
- Participants
- 141 patients
- Exposure
- OR access timing: immediate vs within 24 h vs after 24 h
- Immediaten = 67
- Within 24 hn = 37
- After 24 hn = 37
- Outcome
- Distribution of major trauma cases requiring OR access, hospital LOS, blood product use and mortality
Methodological detailssingle-centre, trauma registry
- Single-centre
- Trauma registry
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Underwent surgery
- 141 of 721 (19.6%)
- Immediate OR access
- 67 (47.5%)
- OR access within 24 h
- 37 (26.2%)
- OR access after 24 h
- 37 (26.2%)
- Median hospital LOS
- 6 days (range 1-102)
- Mortality rate
- 1.4%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Patient characteristics
- Median age, years (range 0-17)
- 8
- Male
- 65.2%
- Median ISS (range 1-57)
- 11.5
- Most frequent specialties: orthopedics and neurosurgery
Original publication
A Retrospective Study on Time Impact of Major Trauma Patients Requiring Access to the Operating Room on the Anesthesia Department of a Pediatric Trauma Center. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 6 August 2026. doi:10.
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