Routine ICU admission after brain tumor surgery: retrospective validation and critical appraisal of two prediction scores.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Routine admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) following brain tumor surgery has been a common practice for many years. Although this practice has been challenged by many authors, it has still not changed widely, mainly due to the lack of reliable data for preoperative risk assessment. Motivated by this dilemma, risk prediction scores for postoperative complications following brain tumor surgery have been developed recently. In order to improve the ICU admission policy at our institution, we assessed the applicability, performance, and safety of the two most appropriate risk prediction scores.

Methods

One thousand consecutive adult patients undergoing elective brain tumor resection within 19 months were included. Patients with craniotomy for other causes, i.e.,

SUBMITTER: Neumann JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10147995 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature