Short-term survival rates of 1397 horses referred for colic from 2010 to 2018

Table 1 Distribution of treatment and short-term survival rate for the present and comparable studies

Country	Period	Cases (n)	Included	Excluded	Treatments (%)		Short-term survival (%)
Country	Period	Cases (n)	Included	Excluded	Medical	Surgical	Overall	Treated	Medical	Surgical	Recovered
(Present study)	2010–2018	1397	All colic cases	Owner declined surgery/treatment, second hospitalization, relaparotomy	77.1	22.9		83	89.7	60.6	76.7
Denmark [5]	2000–2009	1588	All colic cases	Second hospitalization, relaparotomy	76	24	68	76**	87*	42**	75
The Netherlands [12] (Boom)	2012–2013	311	All colic cases	–	76	24	70	80	86	60
The Netherlands [15] (Loon)	2013–2016	283	Laparotomies	–						59	79.5
Norway [13] (Wormstrand)	2005–2011	297	Laparotomies	Euthanized due to injuries in recovery stall, relaparotomy						55	74
Finland [24] Immonen	2006–2012	236	Laparotomies	–						62	75

The column “Overall” shows the short-term survival for all cases included in the study. Treated cases excludes immediately euthanised cases. Recovered cases includes surgical cases that were not euthanised or did not die during surgery or recovery, but instead walked out of the recovery box alive. Some values in this table were calculated by the authors of the present study based on values from the original articles
*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01

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