Facilitating ventilator weaning through rib fixation combined with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in severe blunt chest injury with acute respiratory failure

Table 3 Binary logistic regression analysis of associations between the two groups with rib fixation or without rib fixation

Explanatory variables	Odds ratio 95%	Confidence interval	P value
Gender	0.014	0.000–0.440	0.015
Age	0.985	0.927–1.045	0.611
Rib fracture numbers	1.016	0.598–1.726	0.955
Lung contusion	0.436	0.223–0.852	0.015
Time of ventilator	3.411	1.214–9.585	0.020
Pneumonia	0.201	0.023–1.725	0.143
Empyema	59.388	0.718–4908.858	0.070
Time from trauma to operation	0.718	0.422–1.224	0.224
GCS	0.739	0.514–1.062	0.102
ISS	0.800	0.452–1.416	0.444
Inhospital LOS	1.145	0.948–1.384	0.161
ICU LOS	0.379	0.133–1.083	0.070

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