Table 3.
Risk Factors for 30-Day Post-Operative Complications
| Complication | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Yes | No | p-value | |
| Age, median (IQR) | 15.5 (14.2–16.8) | 15.5 (13.7–16.7) | 0.55 | |
| Sex n(%) | Female | 29 (13.3) | 189 (86.7) | 1.00 |
| Male | 39 (13.1) | 259 (86.9) | ||
| Race n(%) | White | 57 (13.4) | 368 (86.6) | 0.71 |
| Black | 7 (12.7) | 48 (87.3) | ||
| Other | 1 (25.0) | 3 (75.0) | ||
| Unknown | 3 (9.4) | 29 (90.6) | ||
| Hispanic n(%) | Yes | 3 (13.6) | 19 (86.4) | 1.00 |
| No | 64 (13.3) | 419 (86.8) | ||
| ASA class n(%) | <3 | 30 (9.9) | 273 (90.1) | 0.01 |
| ≥ 3 | 38 (17.8) | 175 (82.2) | ||
| Elective case n(%) | Yes | 52 (11.5) | 401 (88.5) | <0.01 |
| No | 16 (25.4) | 47 (74.6) | ||
| Comorbidities n(%) | ||||
| Cardiac | Yes | 0 (0) | 4 (100.0) | 1.00 |
| No | 68 (13.2) | 444 (86.8) | ||
| Respiratory | Yes | 4 (16.7) | 20 (83.3) | 0.54 |
| No | 64 (13.0) | 428 (87.0) | ||
| Neurologic | Yes | 3 (14.3) | 18 (85.7) | 0.75 |
| No | 65 (13.1) | 430 (86.9) | ||
| Renal | Yes | 0 (0) | 1 (100.0) | 1.00 |
| No | 68 (13.2) | 447 (86.8) | ||
| Immunosuppression n(%) | Yes | 23 (11.7) | 174 (88.3) | 0.50 |
| No | 45 (14.1) | 274 (85.9) | ||
| Preoperative steroid use n(%) | Yes | 28 (17.5) | 132 (82.5) | 0.07 |
| No | 40 (11.2) | 316 (88.8) | ||
| Preoperative PN n(%) | Yes | 19 (17.4) | 90 (82.6) | 0.15 |
| No | 49 (12.0) | 358 (88.0) | ||
| Preoperative SIRS/sepsis n(%) | Yes | 8 (27.6) | 21 (72.4) | 0.04 |
| No | 60 (12.3) | 427 (87.7) | ||
| Preoperative blood transfusion n(%) | Yes | 2 (33.3) | 4 (66.7) | 0.18 |
| No | 66 (12.9) | 444 (87.1) | ||
| Preoperative hypoalbuminemia* | Yes | 26 (20.2) | 103 (79.8) | <0.01 |
| No | 17 (9.2) | 168 (90.8) | ||
IQR=interquartile range, ASA=American Society of Anesthesiologists, PN=parenteral nutrition, SIRS=systemic inflammatory response syndrome
*
For preoperative albumin, there are 202 missing values in the data, the total sample size for this row is 314