Abstract:[Objective] To search the factors related to pulmonary infection after internal fixation of femoral intertrochanteric fractures in the elderly. [Methods] A retrospective study was conducted on 629 elderly who had femoral intertrochanteric fractures fixed surgically in our department from January 2015 to December 2023. According to the occurrence of pulmonary infection within 30 days after surgery, 90 patients were fall into the infection group, while the remaining 539 patients were classified as the non-infected group. Univariate comparison and multiple logic regression were used to search the related risk factors, additionally, a disease prediction model was constructed and its efficacy was verified. [Results] As results of univariate comparison, the infection group proved significantly greater than the non-infection group in terms of male ratio [male/female, (44/46) vs (178/361), P=0.003], age [(86.5±7.0) years vs (76.8±9.4) years, P<0.001], chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ratio [y/n, (47/43) vs (11/528), P<0.001], coronary heart disease (CHD) ratios [y/n, (19/71) vs (50/489), P=0.002], smoking ration [y/n, (49/41) vs (184/355), P<0.001], cognitive impairment ratio [y/n, (48/42) vs (81/458), P<0.001], NLR [(8.0±4.6) vs (5.3± 2.0), P<0.001], the general anesthesia ratio [intravertebral anesthesia / general anesthesia (44/46) vs (388/151), P<0.001], the ratio of intraoperative sputum aspiration (P<0.05), the ratio of LISS plate used (P<0.05), incision length (P<0.05), intraoperative blood loss and total blood loss (P<0.05). As for multiple logistic regression analysis, the COPD (OR=151.48, P<0.001), general anesthesia (OR=9.85, P<0.001), cognitive impairment (OR=3.16, P=0.027), preoperative high NLR (OR=1.75, P<0.001), advanced age (OR=1.28, P<0.001) were the independent risk factor for pulmonary infection. The ROC curve showed that the area under curve (AUC) of the predictive model was of 0.96 (95%CI 0.96~ 0.98,P<0.001). [Conclusion] The advanced age, COPD, cognitive impairment, preoperative high NLR and general anesthesia are independent risk factors for pulmonary infection after internal fixation of the femoral intertrochanteric fractures. This established disease prediction nomogram might effectively distinguish the occurrence of postoperative pulmonary infection risk.