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Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of the Two Cohorts

From: Retrospective study assessing outcomes in cardiac surgery after implementation of Quantra

 

Pre-Quantra

Post-Quantra

P-Value

N

64

64

 

Women (n, %)

19

29.69%

19

29.23%

0.9522

Age (mean, SD)

71.59

8.46

70.55

9.13

0.4279

Hypertension (n, %)

35

54.69%

49

76.56%

0.0155*

Diabetes (n, %)

13

20.31%

17

26.56%

0.5313

COPD (n, %)

6

9.38%

5

7.81%

> 0.999

Kidney disease (n, %)

2

3.13%

9

14.06%

0.0585

Dyslipidemia (n, %)

20

31.25%

13

20.31%

0.2254

Anemia (n, %)

1

1.56%

3

4.69%

0.6115

Platelets (x1000/uL) (mean, SD)

197.53

53.70

210.20

51.53

0.5602

INR (mean, SD)

1.12

0.11

1.09

0.17

0.2661

aPTT (s) (mean, SD)

32.35

7.22

35.64

16.00

0.1476

Hemoglobin (g/L)

13.94

2.29

14.15

1.88

0.5904

Hematocrit (%) (mean, SD)

42.31

6.40

42.61

5.56

0.7820

Prehospital Medications1

Aspirin (n, %)

12

18.75%

16

24.62%

0.4179

Clopidogrel (n, %)

1

1.56%

1

1.56%

0.9920

Phytonadione (n, %)

1

1.56%

0

0.0%

0.3125

LMWH (n, %)

11

17.19%

16

24.62%

0.2983

  1. 1] Prehospital medication is defined as a medication received within the 5 days leading up to surgery
  2. *Statistically significant for two-tailed hypothesis using alpha 0.05
  3. dL: deciliter; g: grams; INR: international normalized ratio; LMWH: low molecular weight heparin; N: total number of patients in cohort; n: total number of patients that received prehospital medication; SD: standard deviation; uL: microliters