Pulmonary complications and mortality among COVID-19 patients undergoing a surgery: a multicentre cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our primary objective was to assess the association between symptoms at the time of surgery and postoperative pulmonary complications and mortality in patients with COVID-19. Our secondary objective was to compare postoperative outcomes between patients who had recovered from COVID-19 and asymptomatic patients and explore the effect of the time elapsed between infection and surgery in the former. Our hypotheses were that symptomatic patients had a higher risk of pulmonary complications, whereas patients who had recovered from the infection would exhibit outcomes similar to those of asymptomatic patients.

Background

Managing COVID-19-positive patients requiring surgery is complex due to perceived heightened perioperative risks. However, Canadian data in this contex

SUBMITTER: Amzallag E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11590826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature