Pulmonary influences on early post-operative recovery in patients after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy treatment: a retrospective study

Table 7 Comparisons in recovery process of the 12 patients in the intervention group with 64 non-intervention patients ^a

Peri-operative and post-operative parameters	Intervention group, mean (95% CI)	Non-intervention group, mean (95% CI)	P-value^b
Use of CPAP days	6.8 (3.2 to 10.3)	3.1(1.4 to 4.8)	0.02
Peri-operative crystalloids, ml	14,842 (12,100 to 17,582)	11,671 (10,677 to 12,665)	0.02
Sum of peri-operativecrystalloids and colloids, ml	20,629 (16,790 to 24,469)	16,255 (14,702 to 17,808)	0.02

CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure.
^aIn total, 12 patients needed an invasive intervention due to their pulmonary adverse events. The recovery process, restoration of gastrointestinal functions, the length of ICU stay and total hospital stay were the same as for the patients in the non-intervention group. Use of CPAP was longer for the patients in the intervention group and this group also received larger amounts of peri-operative crystalloids and combined crystalloids and colloids
^bAll P-values were significant.

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