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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2014 Apr;26(2):167–171. doi: 10.1097/ANA.0000000000000028

Table 1.

Preoperative Factors Extubation at
end of case
(n= 163)
Delayed
extubation
(n=126)
P Value
Bivariate
Model
P value
Multivariate
model
Age (years) Mean±SD 57 ± 16 62 ± 12 0.0164* 0.0204*
ASA (1/2/3/4) (3/101/58/1) (2/60/56/8) 0.0090* 0.0001*
Gender (% male) 84 (51%) 56 (44%) 0.2381
BMI (kg/m2) Mean±SD 26.7 ± 6.2 28.2 ± 8.0 0.0794
Previous spine surgery (re-op) 54 (33%) 54 (43%) 0.1108
OSA 8 (5%) 13 (10%) 0.1085
Current Cervical spine surgery 50 (31%) 27 (21%) 0.0828
Current Anterior (and posterior) surgery 21 (13%) 12 (10%) 0.4568
Emergency surgery 3 (2%) 5 (4%) 0.3020
Intraoperative Factors
Difficult Intubation 50 (31%) 36 (29%) 0.7954
Case Duration (mins) Mean±SD 550 ± 68 651 ± 110 <0.0001* 0.0124*
Spine Levels Mean±SD 5.8 ± 3 9 ± 5 <0.0001* 0.0211*
EBL (mL) Mean±SD 1059 ± 770 2068 ± 1466 <0.0001* 0.3533
Crystalloid Volume (mL) Mean±SD 4916 ± 1384 6281 ± 1982 <0.0001* 0.0199*
Colloid Volume (mL) Mean±SD 556 ± 481 909 ± 658 <0.0001* 0.7185
Blood Volume (mL) Mean±SD 364 ± 485 1183 ± 1192 <0.0001* 0.0266*
Anesthesia resident handoff 66 (40%) 79 (61%) 0.0006* 0.2817
Anesthesia attending handoff 64 (39%) 95 (74%) <0.0001* 0.0968
Case end time (24 hr clock) ±SD (hr:min) 18:00 (2:04) 20:15 (2:44) <0.0001* 0.0025*