Open AccessHypoxemia Within the First 3 Postoperative Days Is Associated With Increased 1-Year Postoperative Mortality After Adjusting for Perioperative Opioids and Other Confounders
Author(s) -
Karsten Bartels,
Alexander Kaizer,
Leslie C. Jameson,
Kenneth Bullard,
Colleen Dingmann,
Ana Fernandez-Bustamante
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000004553
Subject(s) - medicine , pacu , perioperative , confounding , anesthesia , hypoxemia , intensive care unit , logistic regression , emergency medicine
Postoperative hypoxemia (POH) is common and primarily treated with temporary oxygen supplementation. Because the clinical impact of POH is sometimes presumed as minor, efforts to better understand and minimize it have been limited. Here, we hypothesized that, after adjusting for opioids received perioperatively and other confounders, the frequency of POH events (POH%) reported within the first 3 postoperative days (PODs) is associated with increased postoperative 1-year mortality.