A Protocol for the Development of the Intraoperative Complications Assessment and Reporting With Universal Standards Criteria: The ICARUS Project

摘要

Perioperative complications, especially intraoperative adverse events (iAEs), carry significant potential for long-term sequelae in a patient’s postoperative course. These events represent a substantial gap in contemporary surgical literature, with only a fraction of publications reporting intraoperative complications as outcomes of interest. To date, there is no universal standard for comprehensively reporting intraoperative complications in surgical practice and literature beyond the systems developed for grading individual events. We aim to establish a set of best-practice criteria for iAE reporting known as the Intraoperative Complication Assessment and Reporting with Universal Standards (ICARUS) Guidelines.