Table 3.

The association between prognostic risk factors and mortality after tracheostomy

Prognostic variable	Category	Number of patients		p-value
		Non-survivors	Survivors
Age	More than 40 years	29	10	0.076
	Less than 40 years	5	7
Gender	Male	20	12	0.542
	Female	14	5
Diabetes mellitus	Yes	11	4	0.745
	No	23	13
Hypertension	Yes	10	7	0.530
	No	24	10
Neurological disease	Yes	14	12	0.074
	No	20	5
Comorbid illness	More than two	16	7	0.770
	Less than or equal to two	18	10
Presence of Sepsis	Yes	22	3	0.002
	No	12	14
Day of tracheostomy after intubation	Early (within 10 days)	23	9	0.365
	Late ( after 10 days)	11	8
Days of tracheostomy after COVID-19 diagnosis	Within 14 days	27	10	0.183
	After 14 days	7	7

Bold represents various prognostic factors and their correlation with mortality of the patient