Impact of Preoperative Counselling on Early Postoperative Mobilization and Its Role in Smooth Recovery

Table 2

Comparison of pulmonary complications.

Data	Group I ()	Group II ()	-value
Mobilization (min), mean (SD)			<0.001^a
Bed to chair	342.92 (22.93)	1511.17 (174.64)
More than 10 minutes	360.71 (27.39)	1570.54 (170.7)
Pulmonary complications^*, n (%)	8 (7.1)	33 (29.7)	<0.001^b
Abnormal breath sound, number (%)	9 (8)	32 (28.8)
Fever for consecutive days, number (%)	9 (8)	8 (7.2)
Presence of cough, number (%)	15 (13.3)	38 (34.2)
White colored sputum, number (%)	8 (7.1)	4 (3.6)
Yellow or green colored sputum, number (%)	3 (2.7)	34 (30.6)
Chest X-ray showing collapse or consolidation, number (%)	5 (4.4)	30 (27)
Unexplained rise on WBC, number (%)	2 (1.8)	5 (4.5)

-test for independent samples.
^bchi-square test.
^*Fulfilling criteria set by Scholes et al. [3].