Can a preoperative risk score identify patients at high risk for postoperative pneumonia after cardiac surgery?
A proposed preoperative scoring system can identify patients at high risk (≥4%) for postoperative pneumonia after cardiac surgery, potentially guiding preventive policies.
Assessing preoperative risk factors for postoperative pneumonia with the proposed scoring system could help to implement a preventive policy in high-risk patients with a risk of postoperative pneumonia greater than 4% (i.e., patients with a score ≥ 3).
Allou et al. (Wed,) studied this question.