Table I.

Demographic, clinical, and procedural variables of patients treated with intravenous vasoactive medications (IVMED) for hypertension and hypotension

Characteristic	No medications (n = 5911)	Hypertension medications (n = 824)	P value	Hypotention medications (n = 942)	P value
Demographics
Age, years	69.6 ± 9.2	68.7 ± 9.4	.011	69.7 ± 9.3	.724
Gender
Male	3529 (59.7)	502 (60.9)	.503	530 (56.3)	.046
Female	2382 (40.3)	322 (39.1)		412 (43.7)
Race
White	5833 (99.6)	798 (98.2)	<.001	934 (99.7)	.636
Smoking
Never	1193 (20.2)	146 (17.7)	.002	174 (18.5)	.474
Prior	2976 (50.4)	386 (46.8)		481 (51.2)
Current	1736 (29.4)	292 (35.4)		285 (30.3)
Medical history
Hypertension	5211 (88.2)	713 (86.6)	.204	837 (88.9)	.546
CAD	1886 (31.9)	315 (38.2)	<.001	329 (34.9)	.067
CHF	447 (7.6)	76 (9.2)	.095	81 (8.6)	.268
COPD	1311 (22.2)	193 (23.4)	.423	238 (25.3)	.036
Diabetes	1822 (30.8)	282 (34.2)	.049	300 (31.8)	.530
ASA	5168 (87.4)	716 (87)	.718	812 (86.3)	.324
Clopidogrel	943 (16)	165 (20)	.003	142 (15.1)	.498
Beta-blockers
Chronic >30 days	3414 (57.8)	450 (54.6)	.199	561 (59.6)	.076
One to 30 days	1259 (21.3)	194 (23.5)		213 (22.6)
None	1237 (20.9)	180 (21.8)		167 (17.7)
Symptomatic	1181 (20)	171 (20.8)	.607	199 (21.1)	.418
Procedure
Type of surgery
Conventional	5306 (89.8)	773 (93.8)	<.001	799 (84.9)	<.001
Eversion	604 (10.2)	51 (6.2)		142 (15.1)
Anesthesia
Local/regional	712 (12)	102 (12.4)	.783	74 (7.9)	<.001
General	5199 (88)	722 (87.6)		868 (92.1)
Shunt	2681 (45.4)	395 (48)	.154	418 (44.4)	.574
Patch	5121 (86.6)	741 (90)	.006	764 (81.1)	<.001

ASA, Aspirin; CAD, coronary artery disease; CHF, congestive heart failure; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Continuous data are presented as mean ± standard deviation and categoric data as number (%).