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NCT Number: NCT05930574

Implementation of an Epidemiological and Clinical Registry of Emergency Surgery Patients in a Costa Rican Hospital

A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted in a quaternary level university hospital of the Costa Rican public health system. The study included all patients aged 12 years and older who required emergency surgery by the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted through the hospital's emergency service.

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Key information

Conditions

Surgical Complication Disease Attributes Emergencies Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Wounds and Injuries

Age range

12 year–100 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Unidad de Investigación en Salud, Hospital Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia

San José, Costa Rica

About this study

This research consists in a retrospective cross-sectional study carried out in a quarterly level university hospital of care of the Costa Rican public health system (high complexity). The study included all patients aged 12 years or older who required emergency surgery for the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted to this center between 2020 and 2022. Only those patients who required emergency surgery by another surgical specialty during this period were excluded from the register. A non-probabilistic convenience sampling was performed, based on the pre-established selection criteria and determined by the number of patients treated in the shock room of the hospital, that subsequently received general emergency or trauma surgery in the period under study. Sociodemographic variables, hemodynamic status, period of hospitalization, related to the procedure performed and the underlying comorbidities, as well as the clinical outcome, were included in the study database.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • The study included all patients aged 12 years and older who required emergency surgery by the hospital's emergency surgery and trauma service, admitted through the hospital's emergency service.

Exclusion criteria

  • . Only those patients who required emergency surgery by another surgical specialty during this period were excluded from the register.

Treatment and study plan

Abdominal surgery

Procedure

surgical interventions by gastrointestinal emergencies, hepatobiliary emergencies and trauma

Primary outcomes

  1. Mortality

    Time frame: retrospective study (2020-2022)

    Mortality rate after the surgical procedure during hospitalization

  2. Mechanical ventilation

    Time frame: retrospective study (2020-2022)

    Days of mechanical ventilation needed

  3. Requirement of Intensive Care Unit

    Time frame: retrospective study (2020-2022)

    Days of permanence in Intensive Care Unit

  4. Infections

    Time frame: retrospective study (2020-2022)

    Infection rate after the surgical procedure during hospitalization

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social

Other Gov

Registry information

Official study title

Demographic and Clinical Characterization of Patients Operated by the General Surgery Service Who Were Admitted by the Emergency Service of the Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Hospital, 2021-2022.

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2022
First posted
Jul 5, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 5, 2023

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