Open AccessOPERATIONS
Author(s) -
Masood Jawaid,
Foad Ali Moosa,
Farhat Jaleel,
Abdul Khalique
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2014.21.01.1902
Subject(s) - medicine , observational study , medical emergency , university hospital , surgery , operations management , engineering , pathology
Objective: To find out reasons for cancellation of operation on the day of surgeryin the Surgical Department of Civil Hospital Karachi. Design: Observational study. Setting &Period: All operation theatre bookings of the Civil Hospital Surgical Department from July 2010 toOctober 2010 have been studied by using the ‘daily operating theatre lists’. Frequency ofcancellation, type of surgeries cancelled and their reasons studied. Results: Out of total 455cases, 97 (21%) surgical operations were cancelled on the day of surgery, highlighting patients’non-compliance as a major contributing reason, followed by the lack of operating room time andother causes. Among the less contributing factors were patient expiry on table, failure toadminister anesthesia and delay in operation due to exams (engagement of patients inundergraduate exam in the college). Conclusions: Patients non-compliance is a majorchallenging factor that causes a large number of cancellations of operations in the Civil HospitalKarachi.