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