Incidence and Associated Factors of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Abdominal Surgery in the Public Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 5

Factors associated with postoperative pulmonary complication in abdominal surgical patients at public hospitals, Ethiopia.

Variable		PPCs		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95%)	value
		Yes	No
Age	15–47	25 (26.6%)	141 (73.1%)	1	1	0.593
	48–63	15 (16%)	40 (20.7%)	0.735 (0.136–3.971)	1.399 (0.409–4.783)
	≥64	54 (57.4%)	12 (6.2%)	0.078 (0.011–0.552)	12.091 (3.310–44.169)	≤0.001
Duration of surgery	<2 h	13 (13.8%)	126 (65.3%)	1	1	0.956
	2-3 h	12 (12.8%)	51 (26.4%)	2.003 (0.286–14.026)	1.039 (0.267–4.045)
	>3 h	69 (73.4%)	16 (8.3%)	0.064 (0.011–0.381)	11.737 (3.621–38.039)	≤0.001
Preoperative saturation	<94%	77 (81.9%)	22 (11.4%)	0.257 (0.057–1.164)	10.671 (3.794–30.016)	≤0.001
	≥94%	17 (18.1%)	171 (88.6%)	1	1
Postoperative serum albumin	<3.5	79 (84%)	21 (10.9%)	0.067 (0.014–0.322)	23.407 (7.956–68.865)	≤0.001
	≥3.5	15 (16%)	172 (89.1%)	1	1

1, reference; COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio. Statistically significant.