The impact of vascular surgery wound complications on quality of life

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• 作者：Edward A. McGillicuddy ; MD^a ; ^{mcgilled@cmhc.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; C. Keith Ozaki ; MD^a ; Samir K. Shah ; MD^a ; Michael Belkin ; MD^a ; Allen Hamdan ; MD^b ; Neal Barshes ; MD ; MPH^c ; Mark Wyers ; MD^b ; Louis Nguyen ; MD ; MBA ; MPH^a
• 刊名：Journal of Vascular Surgery
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：64
• 期：6
• 页码：1780-1788
• 全文大小：164 K

文摘

In addition to traditional surgical outcomes, perioperative quality of life is being scrutinized as a patient-centric metric. As part of a prospective study in a contemporary surgical cohort, subjective health states were examined in context of postoperative wound complications (WCs). We hypothesized that WCs negatively affect quality of life.

Methods

The EuroQol (EQ)-5D subjective health state data, comprising five domains with 1 (good) to 3 (poor) ordinal scoring, plus visual analog score, were collected at the day of surgery and at 2 and 4 weeks of follow-up in a study evaluating silver-eluting dressings in 500 patients at three centers. A preference-weighted index was calculated. Groups were defined by no complication (NC) or presence of one or more postoperative WCs.

Results

Patients (72% male) were a mean age of 67.6 years. Primary indications included critical limb ischemia (41.4%), claudication (31.6%), and abdominal aortic aneurysm (11.2%; open groin access for endovascular aneurysm repair). At least one WC occurred in 148 patients (29.6%). Baseline demographics were similar except mean age (NC group, 67.9 years; WC group, 65.7 years; P = .042) and body mass index (NC group, 27.0 kg/m²; WC group, 28.2 kg/m²). WCs were associated with use of conduit for reconstruction (P = .002), below-knee incisions (P = .002), and incision length (P < .001). Compared with the NC group, there was a decrement in quality-of-life scores in the WC group at 2 weeks (mean change, −0.217; P = .001) but not at 4 weeks (mean change, +0.044; P = .065) postoperatively. Subgroup analysis showed quality-of-life change after WC was most significant in the claudication group (P = .008). The EQ-5D visual analog scale score was lowest in groups with rest pain (57.0) and tissue loss (55.1) and highest in the abdominal aortic aneurysm cohort (71.8).

Conclusions

EQ-5D identified a significantly decreased quality-of-life score 2 weeks after WCs in a cohort undergoing elective infrainguinal arterial surgery. This effect was not present 4 weeks postoperatively.