Table 2 Descriptive statistics of some essential postoperative variables in the whole sample (3315 patients)
From: A simple clinical model for planning transfusion quantities in heart surgery
Variables | Frequency count and percentage |
|---|---|
Morbidity | 1273 (38.4%) |
Reoperation for bleeding | 190 (5.7%) |
Lung dysfunction | 516 (15.6%) |
Low cardiac output | 442 (13.3%) |
Cardiac arrhythmia | 294 (8.9%) |
Coma | 35 (1.1%) |
Stroke | 33 (1.0%) |
Acute kidney failure | 71 (2.1%) |
Kidney dysfunction | 140 (4.2%) |
Sepsis | 26 (0.8%) |
Pneumonia | 51 (1.5%) |
Sternal wound infection | 17 (0.5%) |
Death | 58 (1.7%) |
Mechanical ventilation > 1 day | 422 (12.7%) |
Intensive care > 5 days | 391 (11.8%) |