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. 2019 Feb 28;23:68. doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2361-5

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Kaplan–Meier plots of the cumulative incidence of postoperative hypercapnia in the two study groups. The inter-group difference remained significant after adjustment for age, history of clinically documented pulmonary infections in the month preceding surgery, and preoperative PaCO2, with a hazard ratio for HFNC of 0.33 [0.14–0.74] (p = 0.007). Please note that this analysis was not prespecified and should be considered exploratory in nature.