Table 6.

Potential postoperative complications associated with postoperative mortality by univariate and multivariate analyses in those 32 patients who required critical care services during postoperative care

Postoperative complications	Univariate (P)	Multivariate (P)
Respiratory failure	0.009	0.093
Bacteremia	0.696	⌓
Pneumonia	0.002	0.239
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding	0.116	⌓
Acute renal failure	0.696	⌓
Hepatic failure	0.004	0.863
Cardiac dysarrhythmias	0.130	⌓
Intra⌓abdominal abscess	0.999	⌓
Wound infection	0.999	⌓
Urinary tract infection	0.136	⌓
Myocardial ischemia/infarction	0.274	⌓
Central line infection	0.999	⌓
Intra-abdominal bleeding	0.999	⌓
Empyema	0.375	⌓

Values are expressed as means ± standard deviation.