Prognostic value of the clinical index for surgical complexity for the clinical management of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Abstract

Objective: Multiple preoperative factors can complicate elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The clinical index of surgical complexity groups these factors and gives them a score that allows estimating the surgical complexity, allowing optimizing the clinical management of cholelithiasis, therefore, this work seeks to determine the diagnostic performance of the clinical index of surgical complexity in patients operated at the Centro Médico Docente la Trinidad, of Cholelithiasis by elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy, in the time between 2020 and 2021. Methods: Retrospective observational study that, by obtaining data from 63 patient records, the Clinical Index of Surgical Complexity and its sub-indexes: clinical-surgical, age and comorbidities were calculated to compare each variable, sub-index and total score with the surgical time. Measures of position, central tendency and dispersion were calculated. Results: A higher score in the clinical index of surgical complexity was found to be associated with a surgical time of more than two hours. The cutoff point for surgical time greater than 120 minutes was 5.5 points with a Sensitivity of 53% and specificity of 81%. Conclusions: A score higher than 5 in the Clinical Index of Surgical Complexity could allow us to estimate which laparoscopic cholecystectomies are going to have a duration longer than 2 hours and, in that sense, would allow us to optimize surgical plans.