Research Article
Incidence and Associated Factors of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Abdominal Surgery in the Public Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Table 1
The sociodemographic characteristics of patients who underwent abdominal surgery in public hospitals, Ethiopia.
| Variables | Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) |
| Age | 15–47 | 166 | 57.8 | 48–63 | 55 | 19.2 | ≥64 | 66 | 23 |
| Gender | Female | 143 | 49.8 | Male | 144 | 50.2 |
| BMI | <18.5 | 36 | 12.5 | 18.5–24.9 | 220 | 76.7 | 25–34.9 | 30 | 10.5 | >35 | 1 | 0.3 |
| ASA status | ASA I | 154 | 53.7 | ASA II | 133 | 46.3 |
| Type of anesthesia | General | 249 | 86.8 | Regional | 38 | 13.2 |
| Type of operation | Elective | 117 | 40.8 | Emergency | 170 | 59.2 |
| Alcoholic | Yes | 46 | 16 | No | 241 | 84 |
| Preoperative anemia | Yes | 33 | 11.5 | No | 254 | 88.5 |
| Preoperative saturation | <94% | 99 | 34.5 | ≥94% | 188 | 65.5 |
| Malignancy | Yes | 34 | 11.8 | No | 253 | 88.2 |
| Hypertension | Yes | 29 | 10.1 | No | 258 | 89.9 |
| Diabetes mellitus | Yes | 21 | 7.3 | No | 266 | 92.7 |
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The values are expressed in numbers and percentages. Ages are expressed in years.
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