Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes of Urologic Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, Osijek University Hospital Center

Abstract

Due to their special characteristics, urologic patients require customized postoperative care. Significant comorbidity that is more common in the elderly urologic population, infections, or intraoperative complications may be the reason for surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission, and increased mortality 1-3 .The type of surgery influences the frequency of ICU admissions. According to data from the study by Ha et al., the most common admissions of urologic patients to the ICU were recorded after radical cystectomy 4 . The ICU admission was recorded in 76% of patients who had postoperative delirium and 54.8% of patients who did not have delirium 4 . Admissions to the ICU are less frequent in patients undergoing less invasive surgical procedures. Within 30 days of 104,100 outpatient urethroscopies (URS), all re-admissions to the hospital in patients older than 18 years were recorded in the American commercial