Table 4.
Timing of surgery | Number of patients | Number of patients with surgery performed during ICU stay | In hospital mortality n (%) | Number of patients with surgery not performed during ICU stay | In hospital mortality n (%) |
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Patients with contra-indications to surgery n = 85 | |||||
Emergency | 33 | 6 | 1 (16.7 %) | 27 | 25 (92.6 %) |
Urgent | 50 | 8 | 1 (12.5 %) | 42 | 30 (71.4 %) |
Elective | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Patients without contra-indications to surgery n = 101 | |||||
Emergency | 36 | 36 | 6 (16.6 %) | 0 | 0 |
Urgent | 52 | 41 | 11 (21.2 %) | 11 | 0 |
Elective | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 2 (33.3 %) |