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Table 1 Patient characteristics a

From: Introducing intravascular microdialysis for continuous lactate monitoring in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a prospective observational study

Characteristics

Count

Median

Interquartile range

Sex

Female

22

  
 

Male

56

  

Age (years)

 

69

14

BMI

 

25.5

5.35

Ejection fraction (%)

 

50

10

Diabetic status

No diabetes

57

  
 

Diabetes type 1

2

  
 

Diabetes type 2

19

  

Surgical procedure

CABG

33

  
 

AVR

24

  
 

AVR + CABG

7

  
 

MVR

2

  
 

MVR + CABG

1

  
 

Aortic graft

4

  
 

AVR + aortic graft

5

  
 

Other

2

  

Time of extracorporeal circulation (min)

 

78

53

Time of aortic cross-clamping (min)

 

56

47

Vasoactive drugs

None

4

  
 

NA

9

  
 

Nitro

30

  
 

NA + Nitro

29

  
 

NA + Nitro + A

1

  
 

NA + Nitro + Milrinone

1

  
 

NA + Nitro + Levosimendan

1

  
 

NA + Milrinone

1

  

NA + Milrinone + A

1

  

NA + Milrinone + Levosimendan

1

  

Transfusions

Red blood cells

44

2

4

 

Plasma

16

0

1

  1. aA = Adrenalin, AVR = Aortic valve replacement, BMI = Body mass index, CABG = Coronary artery bypass grafting, MVR = Mitral valve replacement, NA = Noradrenalin, Nitro = Nitroglycerin. Information is provided as either count (number of patients) or median and interquartile range. For transfusions both the number of patients receiving either plasma or red blood cell transfusion as well as the median and interquartile range of the number of transfusions administered are presented.
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