Table 2.
Patient and surgery characteristics.
| Total N = 236 |
Female N = 126 |
Male N = 110 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size 7.0 n = 62 |
Size 6.0 n = 64 |
p-Value | Size 8.0 n = 55 |
Size 7.0 n = 55 |
p-Value | ||
| Gender (Female) | 126 (53.4) | ||||||
| Age (years) | 50.9 (14.0) | 44.8 (12.4) | 47.0 (12.4) | 0.33 | 55.5 (12.7) | 57.6 (14.4) | 0.41 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.1 (4.3) | 27.6 (4.9) | 26.8 (5.2) | 0.37 | 27.4 (3.5) | 26.6 (3.3) | 0.21 |
| Smoker (yes) | 172 (73.2) | 40 (65.6) | 50 (78.1) | 0.12 | 43 (78.2) | 39 (70.9) | 0.38 |
| ASA score | |||||||
| 1 | 105 (44.5) | 34 (54.8) | 33 (51.6) | 18 (32.7) | 20 (36.4) | ||
| 2 | 131 (55.5) | 28 (45.2) | 31 (48.4) | 0.71 | 37 (67.3) | 35 (63.6) | 0.69 |
| SARI score | |||||||
| 0 | 156 (66.4) | 40 (64.5) | 47 (73.4) | 34 (61.8) | 35 (64.8) | ||
| 1 | 22 (9.4) | 5 (8.1) | 3 (4.7) | 7 (12.7) | 7 (13.0) | ||
| 2 | 35 (14.9) | 10 (16.1) | 9 (14.1) | 7 (12.7) | 9 (16.7) | ||
| 3 | 13 (5.5) | 2 (3.2) | 4 (6.3) | 5 (9.1) | 2 (3.7) | ||
| 4 | 9 (3.8) | 5 (8.1) | 1 (1.6) | 0.35 | 2 (3.6) | 1 (1.9) | 0.76 |
| CUFF pressure 1 | 25.1 (11.2) | 27.0 (11.9) | 25.6 (9.8) | 0.48 | 23.6 (11.9) | 23.7 (10.9) | 0.96 |
| CUFF pressure 2 | 22.8 (9.1) | 23.9 (7.7) | 23.6 (8.1) | 0.81 | 21.8 (10.1) | 21.8 (10.8) | 0.99 |
| Cough during intubation (yes) | 34 (14.5) | 9 (14.5) | 8 (12.5) | 0.74 | 9 (16.4) | 8 (14.8) | 0.82 |
| Use of stilet (yes) | 62 (26.3) | 15 (24.2) | 16 (25.0) | 0.92 | 18 (32.7) | 13 (23.6) | 0.29 |
| Use of ventricular probe (yes) | 121 (52.2) | 45 (72.6) | 41 (65.1) | 0.37 | 17 (32.1) | 18 (33.3) | 0.89 |
| Visible blood trail at the tube at extubation (yes) | 16 (7.0) | 5 (8.1) | 4 (6.6) | 0.75 | 3 (5.7) | 4 (7.4) | 0.71 |
| Experience of the anaesthetic staff (years) | 13.7 (10.2) | 12.2 (9.9) | 13.1 (10.1) | 0.60 | 16.7 (10.6) | 13.3 (9.7) | 0.08 |
| Duration of the anaesthesia (min) | 86.0 (43.5) | 97.0 (49.3) | 84.3 (50.8) | 0.16 | 80.5 (32.5) | 80.9 (34.7) | 0.96 |
| PONV prophylaxes with dexamethasone 4 mg iv (yes) | 69 (29.6) | 25 (41.7) | 26 (41.3) | 0.96 | 8 (14.5) | 10 (18.2) | 0.61 |
| PONV prophylaxes with ondansetron 4 mg iv (yes) | 77 (32.8) | 29 (47.5) | 29 (45.3) | 0.80 | 9 (16.4) | 10 (18.2) | 0.80 |