Judicious use of critical care resources by predicting the need for routine ICU admission following esophagectomy.

ABSTRACT: With advances made in the care for esophagectomy patients, the need for routine postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission needs reassessment. We developed a preoperative prediction model to distinguish patients requiring routine ICU admission from those who can be cared for in a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). This retrospective cohort study included consecutive adults undergoing elective esophagectomy between January 2011 and June 2021 in the UMC Utrecht. Firth's corrected multivariable logistic regression was used for model development and internal validation using bootstrapping was performed to obtain optimism-corrected performance metrics. Among the 619 patients included, 380 (61%) received critical care support beyond the first morning following surgery: 83 (13%) were on inv

SUBMITTER: de Mul N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12490070 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature