Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Surgical neonates: A retrospective review of procedures and postoperative outcomes at a quaternary children's hospital
Authors' conclusion
Neonates in this cohort were at risk for severe and nonsevere adverse postoperative outcomes.
Study context
- Population
- Full-term infants with postmenstrual age <44 weeks or premature infants <60 weeks postmenstrual age undergoing nonimaging, noncardiac surgery under GA, January 26, 2015 to August 31, 2018
- Participants
- 1,842 infants · 2,569 procedures
- Outcome
- Severe (mortality, reintubation, positive blood culture, surgical site infection) and nonsevere (hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, hypothermia, hyperthermia, readmission within 30 days) early postoperative complications
Methodological detailssingle-centre, quaternary children's hospital, electronic health record review
- Single-centre
- Quaternary children's hospital
- Electronic health record review
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Severe and nonsevere postoperative outcomes; 30-day mortality
- Emergency surgeries
- 10.9%
- Postoperative severe complications
- 120
- Nonsevere postoperative outcomes
- 965
- 30-day mortality, first procedure
- 1.8%
- Postoperative hyperglycemia
- 13.9%
- Postoperative hypothermia
- 7.9%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
30-day mortality by procedure (subgroup)
- Exploratory laparotomy
- 10.3%
- Congenital lung lesion resection
- 4.9%
- Subgroup analysis
Original publication
Surgical neonates: A retrospective review of procedures and postoperative outcomes at a quaternary children's hospital. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 25 December 2023. doi:10.
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