Table 3.
Thirty-Day Outcomes for Same-Day Versus First-Postoperative-Day (POD1) Discharge After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
| Outcome | Same-day (n = 319) |
POD1 (n = 9,402) |
p Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Mortality | 3 | 0.94 | 5 | 0.05 | 0.0017 |
| Overall morbidity | 12 | 3.76 | 145 | 1.54 | 0.0055 |
| Surgical site infection | 4 | 1.25 | 71 | 0.76 | 0.3128 |
| Superficial | 3 | 0.94 | 56 | 0.60 | 0.4445 |
| Deep | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 0.04 | 0.9999 |
| Organ space | 1 | 0.31 | 11 | 0.12 | 0.3301 |
| Urinary tract infection | 1 | 0.31 | 21 | 0.22 | 0.5204 |
| Cardiac arrest requiring CPR | 2 | 0.63 | 1 | 0.01 | 0.0032 |
| Myocardial infarction | 1 | 0.31 | 3 | 0.03 | 0.1250 |
| Postoperative ventilator | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.03 | – |
| Unplanned intubation | 3 | 0.94 | 6 | 0.06 | 0.0025 |
| Unplanned ICU admission | 4 | 1.25 | 27 | 0.29 | 0.0178 |
| Pneumonia | 0 | 0.00 | 12 | 0.13 | 0.9999 |
| Deep vein thrombosis | 0 | 0.00 | 12 | 0.13 | 0.9999 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 1 | 0.31 | 10 | 0.11 | 0.3073 |
| Renal insufficiency/failure | 3 | 0.94 | 8 | 0.09 | 0.0047 |
| Sepsis | 1 | 0.31 | 4 | 0.04 | 0.1537 |
| Septic shock | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.03 | 0.9999 |
| Readmission | 11 | 3.45 | 344 | 3.66 | 0.7699 |
| Reoperation | 6 | 1.88 | 84 | 0.89 | 0.1273 |
POD, postoperative day.
Values are reported as frequencies (%) unless otherwise indicated.
CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; ICU, intensive care unit; UTI, urinary tract infection