Relationship of mortality with neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, platelet/lymphocyte ratio, and mean platelet volume in patients undergoing acute abdominal surgery.

BACKGROUND: Acute abdominal surgery has a high rate of mortality and morbidity, and intensive care is often needed in the postoperative period. In intensive care units, various scoring systems are used to determine prognosis and mortality but are not sufficient to predict mortality and prognosis. For this purpose, easily applicable, effective methods are being investigated. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between mortality and blood parameters, such as neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and mean platelet volume (MPV), in patients undergoing acute abdominal surgery. METHODS: This study included a total of 249 patients who underwent acute abdominal surgery. The patients were divided into two groups as survivors (n=126) and non-survivors (n=123). The patient data were retrospectively analysed. The NLR, PLR, and MPV values were compared between the groups. Data including age, sex, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II-IV scores (APACHEII-IV), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores (SOFA), Glasgow Coma Scale were assessed. RESULTS: The mortality rate was 49.4% in our study. There was no statistically significant difference in the NLR and PLR values between the groups. However, MPV was significantly higher in the non-survivors group (p<0.004). CONCLUSION: Our study results showed that MPV values were significantly higher in the non-survivors following acute abdominal surgery, and NLR and PLR were not associated with mortality.

Publication rate of abstracts orally presented at the Turkish Society of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation National Congresses.

OBJECTIVE: The most widely accepted parameter in evaluating the quality of research presented at scientific congresses is the success of publishing that research in a peer-reviewed journal. There are limited data in the literature about the publishing rates of abstracts orally presented at national congresses of the Turkish Society of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation (TARD) in scientific journals. The aim of the present study was to investigate the literary contribution of oral presentations at the TARD Congresses (TARK) and to present proposals for future congresses with detailed evaluation of the literature. METHODS: Overall, 319 orally presented abstracts at the TARK between October 2011 and October 2014 have been reviewed in the PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Abstracts were evaluated with respect to the institution of the principal author, type of research, publication status in scientific journal, type of publication, year of publication, rate of citation, order of authors and changes in title. RESULTS: The distributions of investigated papers were as follows: 73.1% clinical research, 21.9% experimental research, 2.5% case presentations and 2.5% survey studies. Moreover, 57.7% of the abstracts had authors from universities, 16% from research-training hospitals and 26.3% from mixed institutions. Further, 42.3% of the abstracts were published as articles in a scientific journal, 65.9% of the manuscripts were published in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed, 8.1% in non-SCIE indexed international journals and 25.9% in national journals. There was no statistically significant difference between institution from which publications were sent and the index status of the journal (p=0.068). The average publication time of the abstracts was 15.01±12.26 months. CONCLUSION: The publication rate of abstracts orally presented at the TARK between October 2011 and October 2014 is 42.3%, which is in accordance with other international studies. This indicates that the reports in the congresses were assessed by the jury according to international selection criteria and meticulously scored. The majority of the abstracts were published in journals that are listed in SCIE, indicating a quantitative data regarding the scientific quality of research in anaesthesiology.