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Table 5 The characteristics of the patients with delayed minitracheostomy

From: Clinical value of a prophylactic minitracheostomy after esophagectomy: analysis in patients at high risk for postoperative pulmonary complications

 

Age

FEV1.0% < 70

Vocal cord palsy

Others factors

1

60–69

  

Failure to cease tobacco

2

60–69

 

3

60–69

 

Liver cirrhosis (ICGR15 = 19%)

4

60–69

 

 

5

70–79

 

Walking difficulty

6

70–79

  

Heart failure (EF48%)

7

40–49

  

Failure to control pain

8

70–79

 

9

70–79

  

10

60–69

 

Liver cirrhosis (ICGR15 = 25%)

11

60–69

  

12

70–79

 
  1. ICGR15 indocyanine green retention time 15 min, EF ejection fraction