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Nobel Medicus, vol.9, no.2, pp.26-31, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
Objective: Postoperative respiratory failure is an important complication of anesthesia. In this study, we aimed to compare the effectiveness of respiratory failure risk index and pneumonia risk index in determining postoperative respiratory failure. Material and Method: 3000 patients were included in our study. We calculated the patients' scores of respiration insufficiency risk indexes and postoperative pneumonia risk indexes in preoperative period. The factors that could play a role in intensive care unit requirement have been inquired through multiple variability regression analysis. Results: Through multiple variability regression analysis we concluded that; intensive care unit requirement and postoperative pulmonary complications were effected by age, gender, low albumin levels, high urea levels, functional state, chronic obstructive lung disease, having more than 4 unit blood transfusion, peripheric vessel surgery, extremity surgery, brain surgery, spinal column surgery and urgent surgery (p<0.05). Respiration insufficiency risk index and postoperative pneumonia risk index scores had similar effects in determining the intensive care unit requirement and postoperative pulmonary complications. Conclusion: We conclude that respiration insufficiency risk index and postoperative pneumonia risk index have similiar effects in determining the intensive care unit requirement and postoperative pulmonary complications.