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The surgical durations were not normally distributed, i.e., there was rightward skewing of the durations.
Data concerning the treatment type (e.g., conservative, laparoscopic, open surgery, conversions, cholecystostomy, and choledochotomies), surgical durations, elective vs. emergency operations, complications, bleeding and number of re-operations were collected from the patients records.
1 3 Such patients are usually accompanied by bowel dysfunction after LT due to long surgical durations and wide abdominal incisions, which prevents early postoperative food intake either orally or via an enteral tube and subsequently leads to worsening malnutrition.
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We sought to correlate surgical duration with complications to reveal mitigating strategies.
We compared patient demographics, surgical duration, anaesthesia duration, length of ICU stay, incidence of emesis requiring treatment, time required to establish regular oral intake, requirement for supplemental intravenous opioids during the first postoperative day, and length of hospital stay.
To estimate the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in women undergoing major gynecologic laparoscopic surgery with an expected surgical duration exceeding 1 hour and anticipated overnight hospitalization.
Surgical duration was 451 min, and blood loss was 150 ml.
We do, however, acknowledge that the determinants of surgical duration are multifactorial including surgical experience and other patient factors such as habitus and body mass index (BMI).
When referring to clinical outcomes, surgical duration of MIS-TLIF was longer than that of open TLIF (179.0 versus 141.8 min, P < 0.001).
In a prospective, randomized study, Janzing et al. [17] reported surgical duration of 65 min with DHS as compared to 49 min with PCCP.
A multinomial logistic regression model was used to assess the odds of minor and major postoperative complications within 30 days after surgery, adjusting for surgical duration.
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