Why the study?
Emergency surgery carries high morbidity and mortality, but very few data are available regarding the relationship between obesity and mortality in emergency surgery.
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Pilot study
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Obese emergency abdominal surgery patients show comparable ICU mortality to non-obese; leaves open confirmation of any paradox in larger prospective cohorts.
Background: Emergency surgery is associated with high mortality and morbidity and identifying the patients at highest risk of death represents a major challenge for intensivists. Obesity is a common comorbidity with increasing prevalence in the last 20 years. While conflicting results were reported on the association between obesity and mortality in elective surgery, very few data are available on this relationship in emergency surgery.
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