Table 9.
Unit and personal experience in severe acute diverticulitis
| Question | Answer | Total (no. 403) | No. of colectomies | Years of experience | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–50 (no. 302) | > 50 (no. 101) | p | ≤ 5 (no. 254) | > 5 (no. 149) | p | ||||||||
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||||
| Question 20 | HP = 25% | 117 | 29.0 | 93 | 30.8 | 24 | 23.8 | 0.315 | 81 | 31.9 | 36 | 24.2 | 0.107 |
| HP = 50% | 142 | 35.2 | 99 | 32.8 | 43 | 42.6 | 79 | 31.1 | 63 | 42.3 | |||
| HP = 75% | 104 | 25.8 | 79 | 26.2 | 25 | 24.8 | 66 | 26.0 | 38 | 25.5 | |||
| HP = > 90% | 40 | 9.9 | 31 | 10.3 | 9 | 8.9 | 28 | 11.0 | 12 | 8.1 | |||
| Question 21 | In my unit we never perform DCS | 115 | 28.5 | 87 | 28.8 | 28 | 27.7 | 0.0014 | 77 | 30.3 | 38 | 25.5 | 0.000013 |
| Yes, I performed DCS as operating surgeon | 76 | 18.9 | 45 | 14.9 | 31 | 30.7 | 30 | 11.8 | 46 | 30.9 | |||
| Yes, but I have never performed DCS as operating surgeon | 212 | 52.6 | 170 | 56.3 | 42 | 41.6 | 147 | 57.9 | 65 | 43.6 | |||
Bold in the tables are statistically significant values
Question 20 = In your unit, considering all emergency procedures carried out for AD, which is the percentage of Hartmann's operations?
Question 21 = In your environment, in the treatment of patients with hemodynamically unstable AD, is Damage Control Surgery (resection of the sigmoid without anastomosis between the two stumps nor stoma, with temporary closure of the abdomen or laparostomy) an option?
HP Hartmann procedure, DCS damage control surgery