No reduction in complication rate by stay in the intensive care unit for patients undergoing surgery for head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstruction

Head and Neck - Tập 31 Số 11 - Trang 1461-1469 - 2009
Emeka Nkenke1, Elefterios Vairaktaris2, Florian Stelzle1, Friedrich Wilhelm Neukam1, Michael St.Pierre3
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Glueckstr. 11, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
2Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon Hospital, Rimini 1 Haidari, GR-12464 Athens, Greece
3Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Krankenhausstrasse 12, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

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Abstract<italic>Background.</italic>

The aim of this prospective cohort study was to determine whether an immediate postoperative period of deep sedation and artificial respiration in an intensive care unit (ICU) leads to fewer complications and a reduced failure rate of microvascular flaps compared with a situation in which patients are allowed to breathe spontaneously without sedation in a recovery room.

<italic>Methods.</italic>

Each group comprised 50 patients. General medical complications and flap donor and recipient site complications were documented.

<italic>Results.</italic>

Significantly, more patients had problems with weaning from ventilation in the ICU group (p = .022). More cases of respiratory insufficiency (p = .240) and pneumonia (p = .081) occurred in the ICU group compared with the recovery room group without statistically significant differences. The number of flaps lost was comparable in both groups (p = .646).

<italic>Conclusions.</italic>

Admission to an ICU did not reduce complications after microvascular reconstruction and, therefore, has only to be considered for selected cases. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck, 2009

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Head and Neck

Tập 31 Số 11

1461-1469

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