Olympus medical systems corp.(omsc) received a literature titled "thirty-day complications, unplanned hospital encounters, and mortality after endosonography and/or guided bronchoscopy: a prospective study." background and objective: limited data exist regarding the adverse events of advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, with most of the available information derived from retrospective datasets that primarily focus on early complications.Methods: we conducted a 15-month prospective cohort study among consecutive patients undergoing endosonography and/or guided bronchoscopy under general anesthesia.We evaluated the 30-day incidence of severe complications, any complication, unplanned hospital encounters, and deaths.Additionally, we analyzed the time of onset (immediate, within 1 h of the procedure; early, 1 h¿24 h; late, 24 h¿30 days) and identified risk factors associated with these events.Results: thirty-day data were available for 697 out of 701 (99.4%) enrolled patients, with 85.6% having suspected malignancy and multiple comorbidities (median charlson comorbidity index (iqr): 4 (2¿5)).Severe complications occurred in only 17 (2.4%) patients, but among them, 10 (58.8%) had unplanned hospital encounters and 2 (11.7%) died within 30 days.A significant proportion of procedure-related severe complications (8/17, 47.1%); unplanned hospital encounters (8/11, 72.7%); and the two deaths occurred days or weeks after the procedure.Low-dose attenuation in the biopsy site on computed tomography was independently associated with any complication (or: 1.87; 95% ci 1.13¿3.09); unplanned hospital encounters (or: 2.17; 95% ci 1.10¿4.30); and mortality (or: 4.19; 95% ci 1.74¿10.11).Within the 30-day follow-up period, 24 patients died (3.4% all-cause mortality), but only 2 deaths were considered related to the procedure (0.29% procedure-related mortality) (table 4).One patient developed a coma due to an air embolism during a combined endosonography and guided bronchoscopy procedure.During the icu stay, the patient experienced respiratory failure requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation due to bilateral pneumonia.He ultimately died 28 days after the procedure, with septic shock identified as the final cause of death.The second patient died 19 days after a combined endosonography and guided bronchoscopy procedure due to an acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (ipf).Of note, the majority of patients had an underlying malignancy (85.6%) and multiple comorbidities, with a median charlson comorbidity index (cci) of 4 (iqr 2¿5).Out of the 456 patients who were ultimately diagnosed with primary lung cancer, 47 (10.3%) were classified as being in stage i, 37 (8.1%) in stage ii, 96 (21.1%) in stage iii, and the majority in stage iv (261, 57.2%); the remaining 15 (3.3%) patients underwent endosonography and/or guided bronchoscopy, as they were found to have a suspected relapse of a previously treated lung cancer.Conclusions: severe complications arising from endosonography and guided bronchoscopy, although uncommon, have significant clinical consequences.A substantial proportion of adverse events occur days after the procedure, potentially going unnoticed and exerting a negative clinical impact if a proactive surveillance program is not implemented.Type of adverse events/number of patients: event 1:immediate, severe, complications (air embolism (1), bleeding grade >=3 (1)) (table 2) event 2:immediate, mild/moderate, complications (laryngobronchospasm (17), bleeding grade <=2 (16), transient but sustained hypoxemia (3)) (table 2).Event 3:early, severe, complications (respiratory failure (4), pneumothorax (1), acute coronary syndrome (1)) (table 2).Event 4:early, mild/moderate, complications (*fever(7), transient (<24 h) respiratory failure (2), persistent sore throat (2), vasovagal syncope (1), persistent headache/vomiting (1)) (table 2).Event 5:late, severe, complications (pulmonary infection (2), severe hemoptysis (2), pulmonary infection and empyema (1), mediastinitis (1), acute exacerbation of pulmonary fibrosis (1), respiratory failure (1)) (table 2).Event 6:late, mild/moderate, complications (hemoptysis (9), *fever (7), worsening dyspnea (4)) (table 2).Event 7:**unplanned hospital encounters (uhe) (11) (table 4).Event 8:death (non-procedure related (22), procedure related (2)) (table 4).Fever was defined as > 38 c occurring after the procedure, with a duration > 12 h and requiring antibiotic treatment because of a lack of response to paracetamol.**causes of procedure-related unplanned hospital encounters included: respiratory failure (2), severe hemoptysis (2), pneumonia (1), mediastinitis (1), sepsis from lung abscess (1), pneumonia with empyema (1), coma due to air embolism (1), acute exacerbation of ipf (1), persistent headache/vomiting (1).This literature article requires 12 reports.The related patient identifiers are as follows: 1.(b)(6): bf-uc260fw (procedure-related deaths).2.(b)(6): na-201sx-4021 (procedure-related deaths).3.(b)(6): bf-p190 (procedure-related deaths).4.(b)(6): um-s20-17s (procedure-related deaths).5.(b)(6): fb-433d (procedure-related deaths).6.(b)(6): na-1c-1 (procedure-related deaths).7.(b)(6): bf-uc260fw (adverse events).8.(b)(6): na-201sx-4021 (adverse events).9.(b)(6): bf-p190 (adverse events).10.(b)(6): um-s20-17s (adverse events).11.(b)(6): fb-433d (adverse events).12.(b)(6): na-1c-1 (adverse events).This medwatch report is for patient identifier (b)(6).There is no report of any olympus device malfunction in any procedure described in this study.
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