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

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between the duration of anaesthesia and non‐urological complication (NUC) rates after surgery, as the increasing complexity of minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures in urology has resulted in longer surgery and anaesthesia, and information on the effect...

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Published in:BJU international 2008-08, Vol.102 (3), p.301-304
Main Authors: Routh, Jonathan C., Bacon, Douglas R., Leibovich, Bradley C., Zincke, Horst, Blute, Michael L., Frank, Igor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Anesthesia, General - adverse effects
Biological and medical sciences
Carcinoma, Renal Cell - surgery
Female
general anaesthesia
Humans
Intraoperative Complications - etiology
Intraoperative Complications - mortality
kidney
Kidney Neoplasms - surgery
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
nephrectomy
Nephrectomy - methods
Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases
Nephrons - surgery
Postoperative Complications
Risk Factors
Time Factors
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Summary:OBJECTIVE To examine the association between the duration of anaesthesia and non‐urological complication (NUC) rates after surgery, as the increasing complexity of minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures in urology has resulted in longer surgery and anaesthesia, and information on the effect of this on NUC rates is limited. PATIENTS AND METHODS We identified 2196 patients who had open radical nephrectomy or nephron‐sparing surgery at our institution between 1989 and 2002. Patients were subdivided into groups I, II, and III according to the duration of general anaesthesia (
ISSN:1464-4096
1464-410X
DOI:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07663.x