Table 4.
Associated factors for postoperative hypoxemia in Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia; 2021 (N = 298).
| Variable | Category | Postoperative saturation |
p-value | CI 95% |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not hypoxia | Hypoxia | COR | AOR | |||
| Age | <55 | 205 | 54 | 0.001 | 0.277 (0.138,0.556) | 0.157 (0.055,0.419) |
| ≥55 | 20 | 19 | 1 | |||
| Preoperative SPO2 | ≤94% | 105 | 57 | 0.001 | 4.071 (2.205,7.158) | 4.497 (2.220, 9.110) |
| › 94% | 120 | 16 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Type of anesthesia | General anesthesia | 182 | 67 | 0.002 | 2.638 (1.074, 6.482) | 8.013 (2.207, 29.091) |
| Regional anesthesia | 43 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Muscular strength | 1 | 184 | 40 | 0.01 | 0.270 (0.152, 0.478) | 0.392 (0.193, 0.796) |
| 0 | 41 | 33 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Postoperative pain score | No | 34 | 5 | <0.001 | 0.122 (0.057,0.262) | 0.114 (0.032,0.411) |
| Mild | 114 | 15 | 0.001 | 0.136 (0.046,0.403) | 0.182 (0.073, 0.454) | |
| Moderate | 52 | 26 | 0.772 | 0.463 (0.225,0.951) | 0.880 (0.370, 2.091) | |
| Severe | 25 | 27 | 1 | 1 | ||
Multivariate logistic regression analysis was done. P-value less than 0.05 was statistically significant.
AOR = Adjusted odds ratio, COD = crude odds ratio, CI = confidence interval.