The Hellenic Emergency Laparotomy Study (HELAS): A Prospective Multicentre Study on the Outcomes of Emergency Laparotomy in Greece.
Konstantinos LasithiotakisEvangelos I KritsotakisStamatios KokkinakisGeorgia PetraKonstantinos PaterakisGaryfallia-Apostolia KaraliVironas MalikidesCharalampos S AnastasiadisOdysseas ZorasNikolas DrakosIoannis KehagiasDimitrios KehagiasNikolaos GouvasGeorgios KokkinosIoanna PozotouPanayiotis PapatheodorouKyriakos FrantzeskouDimitrios SchizasAthanasios SyllaiosIfaistion M PaliosKonstantinos NastosMarkos PerdikarisNikolaos V MichalopoulosIoannis MargarisEvangelos LolisGeorgia DimopoulouDimitrios PanagiotouVasiliki NikolaouGeorgios K GlantzounisGeorge Pappas-GogosKostas TepelenisGeorgios ZacharioudakisSavvas TsaramanidisIoannis PatsarikasGeorgios StylianidisGeorgios GiannosMichael KaranikasKonstantinia KofinaMarkos MarkouEmmanuel ChrysosPublished in: World journal of surgery (2022)
In this study, Greek patients experienced markedly worse mortality after emergency laparotomy compared with their British counterparts. This can be at least partly explained by underutilisation of critical care by surgical patients who are at high risk for death.