Key result
Surgeons and anaesthetists showed no correlation in their perceived reasons for in-hospital delays to emergency surgical care, despite almost 20% of patients waiting over twelve hours.
Why the study?
Patients experience delays in emergency surgical care, prompting an evaluation of in-hospital delay durations and differing surgical versus anesthesia perspectives on perceived reasons.
Observational
No
Highlights significant delays in emergency surgical care in a resource-limited setting and a lack of consensus between surgical and anesthesia teams on the causes.
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Delays exceeding 2 hours affect most emergency cases; leaves open whether aligning surgeon-anaesthetist perceptions could mitigate them in low-resource settings.
Patients experience delays in emergency surgical care. Our 3-month mixed-methods observational prospective study examined the duration of in-hospital delays (IHDs) to emergency surgery at a tertiary hospital in Malawi and perceived reasons for such delay, assessing the correlation between surgery and anesthesia. Delays over two hours occurred in the majority, and almost 20% waited over twelve hours. However, we found no correlation between surgeons and anaesthetists in the perceived reasons for In-hospital delays to emergency surgical care.
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Robinson et al. (2022) conducted an observational in Emergency surgical care. Surgery versus anesthesiology perspective on in-hospital delays was evaluated on Correlation between surgery and anesthesia in perceived reasons for delay. Surgeons and anaesthetists showed no correlation in their perceived reasons for in-hospital delays to emergency surgical care, despite almost 20% of patients waiting over twelve hours.
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