Clinical Study
Intensive Care Unit Admission after Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy. Is It Necessary?
Table 1
Patient’s characteristic.
| Variables | No (%) |
| Age (years) | | Mean | 44.5 (30–72) | Gender | | Female | 30 (77) | Male | 9 (23) | Operative Time | 7 hours (5–10 hrs) | Primary site | | Colorectal | 14 (35.8) | Ovarian epithelial cancer | 14 (35.8) | Pseudomyxoma | 6 (15.3) | Appendix | 3 (7.6) | Gastric | 2 (5) | Previous surgery | 39 | Previous systemic chemotherapy | 30 (77) | PCI | 12.8 (2–33) | <20 | 22 (57%) | >20 | 17 (43%) |
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PCI: peritoneal cancer index.
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