ALB and infection: The analysis revealed that several factors, including age, type of surgery (emergency vs. selective), whether a secondary surgery was performed, clinical outcome (survival vs. death), length of ICU stay, length of hospital stay, and various preoperative and postoperative laboratory values (such as WBC count, neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, hemoglobin, albumin, CRP, TBIL, procalcitonin, and D-dimer), were significantly associated with these infections (P ≤ 0.05) (Table 5).