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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 3:25 am Post subject: The study |
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TUESDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Surgeon fatigue has been blamed for adverse outcomes among patients operated on at night, but new research finds that time of day has no effect on the survival rates of patients undergoing heart and lung transplants.
“We aren’t suggesting that fatigue is good,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Ashish S. Shah, an assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in a university news release. “But what is important is that, at least in this specialty, it seems we’re able to deal with it without subjecting the patient to risk.”
The study, published June 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compiled data on a decade of transplants across the United States involving a total of 27,118 patients. Researchers found survival rates up to one year after surgery were similar regardless of when the organ transplants were performed — day or night.
Although researchers noted there was a slightly higher rate of airway dehiscence (a surgical complication) associated with nighttime lung transplants, total hospital length of stay was similar no matter what time of day surgeons operated.
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