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Table 1 Demographics

From: Dislocation rates of postoperative airway exchange catheters - a prospective case series of 200 patients

n = 198

Oral AEC n = 74

Nasal AEC n = 124

p-value

Female; n (%)

25 (34)

34 (27)

0.34

Surgical intervention

ENT/Orthopedics/Maxillofacial/General/missing data n (%)

46/16/1/8/3 (62/22/1/11/4)

65/26/14/1/18 (52/21/11/1/15)

0.001

Age in years (mean ± SD)

63.2 ± 14.2

58.1 ± 16.1

0.03

Weight in kg (mean ± SD)

77.1 ± 17.5

74.8 ± 17.0

0.37

Height in cm (mean ± SD)

170.3 ± 8.2

172.4 ± 10.3

0.15

BMI kg m− 2 (mean ± SD)

26.6 ± 5.8

25.1 ± 4.8

0.05

ASA class I/ II/ III/ IV/ missing data; n (%)

5/31/33/2/3 (7/42/45/3/4)

10/41/64/4/5 (8/33/52/3/4)

0.81

  1. Data are mean and standard deviation (SD), or numbers and percent
  2. AEC Airway Exchange Catheter, ENT ears, nose, and throat