The Underreported Postoperative Suffering after Thyroid Surgery: Dysphagia, Dysphonia, and Neck Pain—A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Multivariate output of factors associated with postoperative complain after thyroid surgery.

Postoperative complain	Variables (risk factors)	COR	AOR	95% CI	value
Voice change	Large ETT size	17.29	15.47	3.4–69.5	0.001
	Duration of surgery lasting 2 hours or more	7.22	7.34	1.5–35.1	0.01
	Frequent intraoperative hypotension	4.92	23.24	4.6–116.7	0.001
	Postoperative throat pain	0.36	0.41	0.07–2.58	0.34
Swallowing difficulty	Large ETT size	4.65	4.92	1.34–18.01	0.02
	Types of procedure = total/near total	2.09	8.62	1.21–61.50	0.03
	Frequent intraoperative hypotension	2.42	6.96	1.77–27.39	0.01
	Less experienced anesthetist (2 year)	3.33	5.40	1.16–25.06	0.03
Neck pain	Large ETT size	0.06	0.76	0.43–1.35	0.36
	Duration of surgery lasting 2 hours or more	9.90	10.26	2.15–48.88	0.001
	Types of procedure	0.53	0.35	0.1–1.14	0.08
	Anesthetists’ experiences	1.90	1.17	0.41–3.38	0.77

Note. ETT: endotracheal tube; EBL: estimated blood loss; EBVt: estimated total blood volume.