1. Association of Preoperative Pneumonia With Postsurgical Morbidity and Mortality in Children
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Olubukola O. Nafiu, Christian Mpody, Julie Balch Samora, Joseph D. Tobias, and Stephen Kirkby
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Adolescent ,Databases, Factual ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Rate ratio ,Risk Assessment ,03 medical and health sciences ,Postoperative Complications ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,030202 anesthesiology ,Internal medicine ,Lower respiratory tract infection ,medicine ,Risk of mortality ,Humans ,Hospital Mortality ,Child ,Retrospective Studies ,Mechanical ventilation ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Hazard ratio ,Age Factors ,Infant ,Retrospective cohort study ,Pneumonia ,Length of Stay ,medicine.disease ,Respiration, Artificial ,United States ,Treatment Outcome ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Child, Preschool ,Surgical Procedures, Operative ,Female ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
BACKGROUND Pneumonia is a common lower respiratory tract infection (LRI) and the leading cause of pediatric hospitalization in the United States. Given its frequency, children with pneumonia may require surgery during their hospital course. This poses serious anesthetic and surgical challenges because preoperative pulmonary status is among the most important risk factors for postoperative complications. Although recent adult data indicated that preoperative pneumonia was associated with poor surgical outcomes, comparable data in children are lacking. Therefore, our objective was to investigate the association of preoperative pneumonia with postoperative mortality and morbidity in children. METHODS Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database, we assembled a retrospective cohort of children (
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- 2020