However, because our routine involved both viral testing for symptomatic patients and procedure postponement for patients with systemic or lower respiratory disease, it is unlikely that patients with occult RSV or influenza infection in perioperative period would have been misclassified as controls.
The majority of process deviations in the control group could be corrected before commencement of the procedure, but not without causing delay or postponement in many patients.
For other infusions, postponement of the procedure up to 14 h after infusion was often due to technical reasons in case of caesarean sections.
Strategies to improve outcomes might include improving cardiovascular protection in these patients and, whenever possible, postponement of the surgical procedure as much as possible to treat the sepsis first.
The risk of arterial and venous thromboses should be recognised in preoperative patients with any grade of sepsis, and postponement of the surgical procedure should be considered whenever possible.
Before implementation, 10%% of included interventional procedures were postponed or canceled, whereas after implementation, no postponements or cancellations occurred (Table 3).
Yet, it did not prevent delay and postponement of procedures in 17.3 and 15.5 % of patients, respectively.
While it is likely that the majority of these separations represent cleft related procedures or surgeries, it is possible within this dataset, that a separation would have been recorded for an individual who had been admitted to hospital with a cleft primary diagnostic code and then discharged without having undergone any procedure (due to illness or a hospital initiated postponement).
It is possible, within this dataset, that a separation would have been recorded for an individual who had been admitted to hospital with a cleft primary diagnostic code and then discharged without having undergone any procedure (due to illness or a hospital initiated postponement).
