Table 2.

Incidence rates per day of newly detected postoperative pulmonary complications with point-of-care lung ultrasound after major abdominal surgery

Day	Number of patients in which LUS is performed (N)	Patients with ≥ 1 PPC [N (%)]	Respiratory infection	Pneumothorax	Pulmonary edema	Atelectasis	Pleural effusion
POD 0	43	31 (72%)	2	2	0	29	10
POD 1	92	64 (70%)	0	4	2	55	31
POD 2	87	21 (24%)	4	0	1	9	9
POD 3	56	8 (14%)	1	0	2	1	5

Patients can develop multiple PPCs. Total amount of PPCs can be higher than the number of patients

LUS lung ultrasound, PPC postoperative pulmonary complication, POD postoperative day