Perioperative continuous body weight measurements with load cells under the bed legs in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both excessive positive fluid balance and body weight increase after surgery are risk factors for poor postoperative outcomes. The use in clinical practice and the value of perioperative body weight measurements are unclear at present, possibly due to difficulty in measuring body weight in patients lying on the bed and insufficient clinical research.

Objectives

To investigate the relationship between intraoperative fluid balance and body weight change and perioperative nightly body weight change pattern throughout the hospital stay with contact-free unconstraint load cells placed under the bed legs.

Design

Observational and exploratory study.

Setting

A single university hospital.

Patients

Twenty adult patients were undergoing elective abdomina

SUBMITTER: Son K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11783642 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature