Table 2.
Perioperative outcomes of patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery and full sternotomy by procedure type∗
| Characteristic | Surgical approach |
P value ⍺ = 0.05 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full sternotomy (n = 124) | Minimally-invasive surgery (n = 368) | ||
| Perioperative | |||
| Bypass time (min) | 106 (85-141.75) | 65 (56-95) | <0.001 |
| Crossclamp time (min) | 83 (54.25-112.25) | 46 (39-67) | <0.001 |
| On-table extubation | 12 (9.68) | 183 (49.73) | <0.001 |
| ICU LOS (h) | 28.5 (21-51.75) | 15 (8-27) | <0.001 |
| Operating surgeon | |||
| Surgeon A | 39 (8.01) | 258 (52.98) | <0.001 |
| Surgeon B | 27 (5.54) | 52 (10.68) | |
| Surgeon C | 10 (2.05) | 38 (7.80) | |
| Surgeon D | 36 (7.39) | 0 (0.00) | |
| Surgeon E | 10 (2.05) | 17 (3.49) | |
| Valve operation | |||
| Aortic valve replacement | 96 (19.51) | 196 (39.84) | <0.001 |
| Mitral valve replacement | 25 (5.08) | 54 (10.98) | |
| Mitral valve repair | 3 (0.61) | 118 (23.98) | |
| Blood products, ≥2 U | |||
| Intraoperative | |||
| Packed RBCs | 20 (16.13) | 7 (1.90) | <0.001 |
| Fresh frozen plasma | 28 (22.58) | 11 (2.99) | <0.001 |
| Cryoprecipitate | 13 (10.48) | 7 (1.90) | <0.001 |
| Platelets | 48 (38.71) | 22 (5.98) | <0.001 |
| Postoperative | |||
| Packed RBCs | 35 (28.23) | 25 (6.79) | <0.001 |
| Fresh frozen plasma | 26 (20.97) | 37 (10.05) | 0.002 |
| Cryoprecipitate | 16 (12.90) | 7 (1.90) | <0.001 |
| Platelets | 19 (15.32) | 12 (3.26) | <0.001 |
values are presented as median (interquartile range) or n (%). ICU LOS, Intensive care unit length of stay; RBCs, red blood cells.
∗
All bold font indicates statistically significant difference at a P-value of 0.05.