Risk Factors for Complications Following Lateral Skull Base Surgery and the Utility of ICU Monitoring.
Otol Neurotol
; 42(9): e1362-e1368, 2021 10 01.
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| ID: mdl-34310552
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the role of intensive care unit (ICU) management following lateral skull base surgery for vestibular schwannoma and identify risk factors for complications warranting admission to the ICU. STUDYDESIGN:
Retrospective review.SETTING:
Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Two hundred consecutive patients undergoing lateral skull base surgery for vestibular schwannomas. INTERVENTION Lateral skull base approach for resection of vestibular schwannoma and postoperative monitoring. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
Patients were grouped if they sustained an ICU complication, a non-ICU complication, or no complication. Analysis was performed to determine patient or treatment factors that may be associated with ICU complications. Multivariate and three-way analysis of variance compared groups, and multivariate logistic regression determined adjusted odds ratios (aOR) for analyzed factors.RESULTS:
Seventeen of 200 patients sustained ICU complications (8.5%), most commonly hypertensive urgency (nâ=â15). Forty-six (23%) sustained non-ICU complications, and 137 (68.5%) had no complications. When controlling for age, sex, obesity, and other comorbidities, only hypertension (aOR 5.43, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.35-21.73, pâ=â0.017) and tumor volume (aOR 3.29, 95% CI 1.09-9.96, pâ=â0.035) were independently associated with increased risk of ICU complications.CONCLUSIONS:
The necessity of intensive care following lateral skull base surgery is rare, with the primary ICU complication being hypertensive urgency. Preoperative hypertension and large tumor volume (>4500âmm3) were independently associated with increased risk for ICU complications. These findings may allow for risk stratification of patients appropriate for admission to stepdown units following resection of vestibular schwannomas. Further prospective, multi-center, randomized studies are necessary to validate these findings before systematic changes to current postoperative care practices.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Postoperative Complications
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Intensive Care Units
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Otol Neurotol
Journal subject:
NEUROLOGIA
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OTORRINOLARINGOLOGIA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article