Critical Care Admissions following Total Laryngectomy: Is It Time to Change Our Practice?

Table 2

Mean age, length of procedure, ASA class, and POSSUM scores in relation to operative procedure (standard deviation).

Surgery		Age	Length of procedure	ASA class				POSSUM		P-POSSUM mortality (%)
				I	II	III	IV	Morbidity (%)	Mortality (%)
Total laryngectomy	1	64	4 hrs	0	0	1	0	95.1	3.1	0.8
Total laryngectomy unilateral neck dissection	1	73.55	8 hrs, 12 mins	0	0	1	0	17.7	57.7	31.5
Total laryngectomy + bilateral neck dissection	2	62.04 (9.36)	7 hrs, 25 mins (20 mins)	0	0	2	0	59.4 (3.7)	13.7 (1.6)	4.3 (0.4)
Total laryngectomy + partial pharyngectomy + hemithyroidectomy + bilateral neck dissection (TLPPHT)	18	65.07 (10.45)	8 hrs, 12 mins (15 mins)	0	4	11	3	57.8 (16.8)	16.4 (13.0)	5.9 (7.6)
Total	22	65.13 (9.8)	7 hrs, 56 mins (71 mins)	0	4	15	3	57.7 (19.2)	17.4 (15.1)	6.7 (8.9)