We collected data from comorbidities, characteristics of surgery, blood transfusions, sepsis, graft rejection, multiple organ dysfunction, APACHE II, SOFA and MELD scores, ICU and hospital length of stay, and outcome.
Detailed information on the intra- or postoperative characteristics of the surgery is shown in Table 2.
No difference was observed for the characteristics of initial surgery leading to POP.
Characteristics of abdominal surgery were similar in the two groups except for colonic resection and colonic stoma (more frequent in supine group).
Table 1 shows baseline characteristics of bariatric surgery patients and matched controls.
So far, only few manuscripts on the characteristics of epilepsy surgery in childhood and its implications for the anesthetist have been published [ 13- 17].
In their review, A. Habertheuer et al. point out the importance of the changing characteristics of cardiac surgery patients and propose that better understanding of the associated molecular changes could offer new directions for the design of new more appropriate cardioprotective regimens.
No difference was detected in preoperative characteristics, type of surgery and anesthesia.
Data were extracted on patient characteristics, type of surgery and the number of patients who received a blood transfusion.
