INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF PREOPERATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ON RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS AFTER A THYROIDECTOMY IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS; A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

Abstract

Materials and Method: After obtaining local ethical committee approval, the perioperative data of geriatric patients who had total thyroidectomy between January 2016 and December 2018 were evaluated. Patients’ age, sex, body mass index, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, preoperative systemic disease or medical comorbidities such as thyroid hormone dysfunction and electrolyte imbalance, difficult airway, operation time, preoperative vocal cord paralysis and thyroid malignancy were evaluated. Patients with respiratory or cardiovascular complications 30 days after surgery were evaluated about the effect of demographic data by using one –way ANOVA test.