Readmission to Intensive Care Unit After Initial Recovery From Major Thoracic Oncology Surgery Suk-Won Song, MD, Hyun-Sung Lee, MD, PhD, Jae-Hyun Kim, MD, Moon Soo Kim, MD, Jong Mog Lee, MD, Jae Ill Zo, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 84, Issue 6, Pages 1838-1846 (December 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.074 Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Overall survival in survivors from readmission to intensive care after initial recovery from major thoracic oncology surgery according to the tracheostomy as an independent prognosis factor. (A) Overall survival at one and three years was 77.0% and 62.8% for no-tracheostomy patients, and was 44.7% and 22.3% for tracheostomy patients, respectively (p = 0.011). (B) Cumulative mortality from cancer-unrelated causes in the patients who underwent the tracheostomy in the intensive care unit (p = 0.0016). (CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2007 84, 1838-1846DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.074) Copyright © 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions