NCT04176432

Survival After Emergency Laparotomy in Octogenarians

Mortality and Complications After Emergency Laparotomy in Patients 80 Years Old or Older

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Haukeland University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

In this single-center retrospective study we wanted to investigate mortality and postoperative complications after emergency laparotomy performed in patients aged 80 years or above.

Detailed description

Methods: During 2015-2016 106 patients aged 80 years or above underwent emergency laparotomy at Haukeland University Hospital. Primary outcome was mortality at 30 days. Secondary outcomes were mortality at 90 days, 1 year, postoperative complications and level of care at discharge. The Medical records were reviewed in detail and mortality and postoperative morbidity were registered. Post-operative complications were defined according to the European Perioperative Clinical Outcome (EPCO) definitions and included if they were Clavien Dindo grade 2 or above.

Conditions

• Abdomen, Acute
• Surgery--Complications
• Postoperative Complications
• Frailty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	Retrospective observational study with no intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-31
• Completion: 2019-01-31
• First posted: 2019-11-25
• Last updated: 2019-11-25