The prognosis of postoperative bronchopulmonary complications in the surgical treatment of inflammatory diseases of the hepatobiliary system
Koval', A.I.
Likars'ka Sprava 8: 110-113
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297 PMID: 10204365 Document Number: 488328
Operations for inflammatory diseases of the hepatobiliary system are accompanied in 16 percent of cases by development of pneumonias in the postsurgical period. In statistical treatment of the material, the principal risk factors for development of pneumonia were established as was their prognostic significance. The use of diagnostic coefficients allows the most important prognostic criteria to be assessed in a complex manner, the integral value for the index of risk for development of postsurgical pneumonia to be computed. Depending on magnitude of the index, patients are divided into three groups of risk for development of complications, with the prophylaxis being directed to differentiated use of complexes of measures for each of the groups.