Table 2.
Complications
| Variable (n = 651) | % | Median (IQR) |
| Prolonged ventilation > 72 h | 0.15 | — |
| Extubation impossibility due to hypoxemia | 0 | — |
| Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation | 0.46* | — |
| Reintubation after extubation | 0 | — |
| Cerebral infarction | 0.92 | — |
| Reoperation for bleeding | 1.08 | — |
| Renal failure | 0 | — |
| Perioperative myocardial infarction | 0 | — |
| Heart block | 0 | — |
| Pulmonary embolism | 0 | — |
| Thirty-day death rate | 0.15 | — |
| In-hospital death rate | 0.15 | — |
*butterfly shadow due to cardiac failure; all were urgent, non-controlled cardiac failure and infective endocarditis cases.
IQR: interquartile range; RPE: reexpansion pulmonary edema