Abstract
In Nagasaki University Hospital, the patients undergoing surgery with abnormal respiratory function have been automatically referred to specialized clinic by Medical Support Center (MSC) since July 2016 to reduce surgery cancellations due to insufficient preoperative evaluation. Whether the MSC system decreased post-hospital surgery cancellation, variance rate, or length of hospital stays in patients received "lobectomy" were retrospectively compared between Period A (n = 264, before MSC introduction) and Period B (n = 264, after MSC introduction). Four patients' operations were cancelled after hospitalization in Period A, while 0 patients in Period B (p < 0.05). The length of hospital stay, operation time, anesthesia time, and postoperative extubation oxygen administration time were all shorten in Period B significantly. "Period B", "operation time", and "postoperation oxygenation time" were independent factors for "hospital days", but chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or age were not. The preoperative intervention eliminated the operation cancellation. Preoperative MSC interventions may have contributed to the reduction in hospital days even for the patients with pulmonary dysfunction.
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