Do postoperative pulmonary complications affect outcomes and resource use in adult elective surgery patients?
Postoperative pulmonary complications vary in severity and may have different impacts on outcomes and resource use.
Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are associated with adverse outcomes and added resource use. However, PPCs vary in severity, and so may have very different outcomes.
Linde-Zwirble et al. (Fri,) studied this question.