Multifactorial Risk Index for Predicting Postoperative Respiratory Failure in Men After Major Noncardiac Surgery

By A. Arozullah, J. Daley, W. Henderson, Shukri F. Khuri. Annals of Surgery, 2000

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Predicting Complications in Critical Care Using Heterogeneous Clinical Data (2016, background): “4% [52]–[54] and may be as high as 7% in complicated surgeries such as cardiac, open aortic and upper abdominal surgeries [55].”
Development and Validation of a Multifactorial Risk Index for Predicting Postoperative Pneumonia after Major Noncardiac Surgery (2001, background): “surgery was primarily classified by the anatomic location of the surgical incision (13).”
Continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of postoperative hypoxemia: a randomized controlled trial. (2005, background): “RECOVERY FROM ABDOMINAL surgery is usually fast and uncomplicated, but postoperative hypoxemia complicates between 30% and 50% of cases, even among those undergoing uneventful procedures.(1) Although oxygen administration and incentive spirometry are effective in treating the vast majority of cases ”