Abstract
[Purpose] In this study, we examined the incidence rate and predictive factors of respiratory complications in patients after pulmonary resection surgery. [Methods] For all 146 cases for which pulmonary resections were performed, we researched the presence or absence of respiratory complications in medical records, retrospectively, and calculated the incidence rate and incidence days for respiratory complications. We also looked for predictive factors of respiratory complications using logistic regression analysis. [Results] The incidence rate of respiratory complications after surgery showed an extremely low value of 4.1% (6 cases out of 146 cases) and the incidence day was 2.2 ± 2.2 days from surgery. The possibility or impossibility of preoperative outdoor self-walking (odds ratio 15.2) and the presence or absence of chronic respiratory disease (odds ratio 9.9) influenced the appearance of respiratory complications independently. [Conclusion] Compared to previous reports, the incidence rate of respiratory complications after pulmonary resection surgery is declining trend and we anticipate that its predictive factors have also changed.
