Survival and complication rates in 300 horses undergoing surgical treatment of colic. Part 1: Short-term survival following a single laparotomy

Summary Reasons for performing study: A minority of equine colic cases prove fatal unless treated surgically; however, few studies have considered long‐term survival and complication rates, and few have attempted to identify factors that might affect outcomes. Such information is required for owners...

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Published in:Equine veterinary journal 2005-07, Vol.37 (4), p.296-302
Main Authors: MAIR, T. S., SMITH, L. J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
colic
Colic - mortality
Colic - surgery
Colic - veterinary
England - epidemiology
Female
horse
Horse Diseases - mortality
Horse Diseases - surgery
Horses
Intestine, Small - pathology
laparotomy
Laparotomy - veterinary
Male
Postoperative Complications - epidemiology
Postoperative Complications - mortality
Postoperative Complications - veterinary
Retrospective Studies
short-term
survival
Survival Analysis
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Summary Reasons for performing study: A minority of equine colic cases prove fatal unless treated surgically; however, few studies have considered long‐term survival and complication rates, and few have attempted to identify factors that might affect outcomes. Such information is required for owners and veterinary surgeons to make informed decisions about the most appropriate treatment for individual cases. Objectives: To document short‐term survival rates of 300 horses undergoing colic surgery and analyse factors that might have predisposed to short‐term death. Methods: History, clinical and surgical findings, treatments and outcomes of 300 surgical colic cases (1994–2001) were reviewed. Comparisons among groups of discrete data were made using chi‐squared or Student's t tests as appropriate. Significance was set at P
ISSN:0425-1644
2042-3306
DOI:10.2746/0425164054529409