Why the study?
What are the risk factors for post-operative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery?
What are the risk factors for post-operative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery?
Pre-operative respiratory symptoms and low FEV1/FVC are associated with post-operative pulmonary complications in elective abdominal surgery.
May inform preoperative risk stratification for abdominal surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
The prevalence of PPCs was high in this study. Pre-operative cough, shortness of breath, consolidation, abnormally low percentage predicted FEV1 and FVC were associated with PPCs.
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