Elana Gotkina
FRIDAY, Dec. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Prior infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is not associated with death, major adverse cardiovascular events or rehospitalization after surgery elective noncardiac major, according to a study published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Network Open.
Kieran L. Quinn, MD, Ph.D., of the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a population-based cohort study of adults with a polymerase chain reaction test for SARS -CoV-2 during the six months prior to elective non-cardiac major surgery. . We included data from 71,144 patients undergoing elective major noncardiac surgery (median age, 66 years), of whom 960 (1.3 percent) had prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The researchers observed no association for prior infection with the composite risk of death, major adverse cardiovascular events, and rehospitalization within 30 days of elective major noncardiac surgery. When the time between infection and surgery was less than four weeks or less than seven weeks, and among those previously vaccinated, no association was observed between prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and postoperative outcomes.
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“These findings may have direct applications to health care resource planning and utilization as jurisdictions emerge from the pandemic and address massive delays in elective surgeries,” the authors write.