Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Monitoring the Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes and Prognosticating Outcomes in Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane-Oxygenated Patients
Table 2
Comparison of baseline characteristics between the survival and death groups.
Variable
Survival group (n = 25)
Death group (n = 41)
Statistics
Age (y)
55.60 ± 11.91
60.85 ± 8.40
1.932
0.061
Male/female (n)
14/11
22/19
0.034
0.853
BMI (kg/m2)
24.23 ± 5.25
24.38 ± 4.33
-0.124
0.901
Hypertension (n %)
12 (48.00)
17 (17.07)
0.269
0.604
Diabetes mellitus (n %)
8 (32.00)
7 (21.95)
1.970
0.160
Smoking (n %)
7 (28.00)
11 (26.83)
0.011
0.917
Classification of primary diseases (n %)
Myocardial infarction
13 (52.00)
24 (58.53)
0.269
0.604
Heart failure
9 (36.00)
12 (29.27)
0.324
0.569
Pulmonary embolism
3 (12.00)
1 (2.44)
1.097
0.295a
Congenital heart disease
0 (4.00)
3 (4.88)
0.601
0.438a
Severe sepsis
0
1 (2.44)
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0.621b
Note. aContinuous correction by the chi-square test was used. bFisher’s precision probability test was used.
