The role of surgeon's intuition for acute type A aortic dissection in an era of evidence-based medicine : a prospective cohort study

2023 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved..

Background: Intuition may play a role in clinical practice. This prospective cohort study aimed to explore whether surgeons' intuition is valid in predicting the operative mortality of acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD).

Methods: After admission (before surgery), attending surgeons were asked to rate the mortality on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 to 3 representing unlikely, 4-6 possible, and 7-10 very likely. The area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed to assess the accuracy of prediction models.

Results: A significantly higher Surgeon's Score [5.0 (2.0, 8.0) vs. 8.0 (7.0, 10.0)] was observed in the mortality group, compared to the survival group. The odds ratio (OR) for Surgeon's Score was 1.32 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.09-1.66, P=0.009]. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression picked the following variables as significant predictors for early mortality of ATAAD: Surgeon's Score, Penn classification, age, aortic regurgitation, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, platelet count, and ejection fraction. The AUC for the German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A (GERAADA) score and Surgeon's Score were 0.740 (95% CI: 0.625-0.854), and 0.710 (95% CI: 0.586-0.833), respectively. The combined model of GERAADA score and Surgeon's Score yielded an AUC of up to 0.761 (95% CI: 0.638-0.884).

Conclusions: Intuition certainly has a place alongside evidence-based medicine. The duet of intuition and statistics-based scoring systems allows us to make more accurate predictions, potentially resulting in more rational clinical decisions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Journal of thoracic disease - 15(2023), 10 vom: 31. Okt., Seite 5525-5533

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Jinlin [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zerui [VerfasserIn]
Du, Junzhe [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Julia Fayanne [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Tucheng [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Changjiang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aortic dissection
Intuition
Journal Article
Mortality
Prediction
Surgeon

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Date Revised 12.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/jtd-23-630

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364608595