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April 11, 2008BJU International47 citations

How long is too long? The effect of the duration of anaesthesia on the incidence of non‐urological complications after surgery

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JRJonathan C. RouthDBDouglas R. BaconBLBradley C. Leibovich

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Does a longer duration of anaesthesia increase the incidence of non-urological perioperative complications and mortality in surgical patients?

P
Population
Patients undergoing surgery
I
Intervention
Longer duration of anaesthesia (specifically >6 hours)
C
Comparator
Shorter duration of anaesthesia
O
Outcome
Incidence of non-urological perioperative complications and mortalityhard clinical

Anaesthesia duration exceeding 6 hours is independently associated with an increased risk of perioperative complications and mortality.

Abstract

Longer anaesthesia is associated with an increase in the incidence of perioperative complications and mortality, especially when the duration of anaesthesia is >6 h. This increase appears to be independent of patient's preoperative health status, tumour extent and blood loss.

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Routh et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d84eabd2f7327e70ae2e48https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410x.2008.07663.x
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