Erschienen in:
03.11.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Does C-reactive protein day 1 post-surgery have a predictive role for post-operative complications: a single-centre perspective following published meta-analysis
verfasst von:
Murray Williams, Fiona Langlands, Mathew Giles
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2020
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Excerpt
Bona et al. (2019) have published a review and Bayesian meta-analysis to investigate the predictive utility of C-reactive protein (CRP) for for dectecting complications post operative for bariatric surgey. post-bariatric surgical complications [
1]. Identification of patients who are at risk of developing complications is of great importance to improve clinical outcomes, improve patient experience, guide resource allocation, and provide safe enhanced recovery protocols. There are no national guidelines or protocols to use CRP for this purpose but it is an attractive possibility as it is cheap, easily collected and some authors have found predictive utility. Our group in York Teaching Hospital published work used in this meta-analysis where we concluded that post-operative day (POD) 1 CRP had no diagnostic utility; however, POD 2 did [
2]. Our work had a relatively small sample size and was retrospective in nature. Therefore, we commend Bona et al. on their work to combine the results of many smaller studies using meta-analysis. …
