1. Association of preoperative COVID-19 and postoperative respiratory morbidity during the Omicron epidemic wave: the DROMIS-22 multicentre prospective observational cohort studyResearch in context
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Marc Garnier, Jean-Michel Constantin, Raphaël Cinotti, Chafia Daoui, Dimitri Margetis, Grégory Destruhaut, Cédric Cirenei, Eric Noll, Christophe Quesnel, Agnes Lecinq, Sigismond Lasocki, Hélène Charbonneau, Stanislas Abrard, Cyril Quemeneur, Bruno Pastene, Nathanaël Lapidus, Marc Leone, El Mahdi Hafiani, Olivier Imauven, Emmanuel Rineau, Maxime Léger, Marc Danguy des Deserts, Johan Schmitt, Philippe Aries, Aurélie Gouel, Julia Voulgaropoulos, Laura Soldan, Romain Deransy, Quentin Laurent, Etienne Gayat, Franck Verdonk, Sabrina Chaouche, Amélie Cambriel, Vincent Degos, Julie Dupont, Laura Daoud, Romain Salettes, Malory Favreau, Julien Pottecher, Sophie Diemunsch, Cyril Bidon, Clémence Roy, Laëtitia Ottolenghi, Damien Edouard, Agnès Lecinq, Frédéric Mercier, Delphine Garrigue, Elsa Jozefowicz, Marie Pariès, Fabien Espitalier, Charlène Piat, Richard Descamps, Maëlle Duchesne, Stéphanie Sigaut, Laurie-Anne Thion, Julie Renard, Elsa Brocas, Besma Zbidi, Mohamed Fki, Guillaume Dufour, Mario Bucciero, Charles-Edouard Rochon, Céline Delerue, Virginie Trehel-Tursis, Julien Raft, Olivier Rangeard, Claire Thiriet, Kevin Lagarde, Angélina Pollet, Félix Pelen, Anaïs Caillard, Philippe Penven, Olivier Huet, Floriane Puel, Xavier Pichon, Laetitia Ligneres, Pauline Bleuze, Stéphanie Deryckere, Lionel Velly, Pierre Simeone, Hery Andrianjatovo, Youri Chipouline, Mouna Boolad, Denis Frasca, Quentin Plouviez, Benoit Plaud, Eric Roland, Delphine Cheron-Leroy, Samy Figueiredo, Antonia Blanié, Olivier Joannes-Boyau, Simon Monziols, Jean-Jacques Robin, Matthieu Biais, Hugues De Courson, Cécile Degryse, Marie Do-Khac, Marie-Pierre Bonnet, Aurélien Mazeraud, Jean Bardon, Eléonore Bouchereau, Karine Bezulier, Ségolène Mrozek, Nicolas Mayeur, and Sandrine Lopez
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COVID-19 ,Anaesthesia ,Surgery ,Perioperative risk ,Respiratory complications ,Postoperative pneumonia ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Summary: Background: Preoperative COVID-19 has been associated with excess postoperative morbi-mortality. Consequently, guidelines were developed that recommended the postponement of surgery for at least 7 weeks after the infection. We hypothesised that vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 and the large predominance of the Omicron variant attenuated the effect of a preoperative COVID-19 on the occurrence of postoperative respiratory morbidity. Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study in 41 French centres between 15 March and 30 May 2022 (ClinicalTrials NCT05336110), aimed at comparing the postoperative respiratory morbidity between patients with and without preoperative COVID-19 within 8 weeks prior to surgery. The primary outcome was a composite outcome combining the occurrence of pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, unexpected mechanical ventilation, and pulmonary embolism within the first 30 postoperative days. Secondary outcomes were 30-day mortality, hospital length-of-stay, readmissions, and non-respiratory infections. The sample size was determined to have 90% power to identify a doubling of the primary outcome rate. Adjusted analyses were performed using propensity score modelling and inverse probability weighting. Findings: Of the 4928 patients assessed for the primary outcome, of whom 92.4% were vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2, 705 had preoperative COVID-19. The primary outcome was reported in 140 (2.8%) patients. An 8-week preoperative COVID-19 was not associated with increased postoperative respiratory morbidity (odds ratio 1.08 [95% CI 0.48–2.13]; p = 0.83). None of the secondary outcomes differed between the two groups. Sensitivity analyses concerning the timing between COVID-19 and surgery, and the clinical presentations of preoperative COVID-19 did not show any association with the primary outcome, except for COVID-19 patients with ongoing symptoms the day of surgery (OR 4.29 [1.02–15.8]; p = 0.04). Interpretation: In our Omicron-predominant, highly immunised population undergoing general surgery, a preoperative COVID-19 was not associated with increased postoperative respiratory morbidity. Funding: The study was fully funded by the French Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR).
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- 2023
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