Table 3.

Characteristics, Procedures and Outcomes of Patients with Primary Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Diagnoses Admitted to the CICU in Years 2012 and 2013

	Non-Cardiac	Cardiac
Number of Hospitalizations	n=260,742	n=243,398
Age (mean)	78	77
65–74	37.3	41.8
75–84	36.8	36.8
85–94	23.5	19.7
95+	2.4	1.7
Sex
Male	47.5	53.2
Female	52.5	46.8
Race
White	83.3	85.9
Black	10.7	8.9
Other	6.0	5.1
Elixhauser Comorbidities
0–1	17.5	19.6
2	27.2	26.1
≥3	55.4	54.3
Hypertension	56.4	60.7
Diabetes Mellitus	22.4	27.0
Obesity	3.9	6.2
Congestive Heart Failure	30.8	37.2
Valvular Heart Disease	6.1	13.8
Pulmonary Circulatory Disease	6.0	7.6
Peripheral Vascular Disease	7.4	9.7
Chronic Pulmonary Disease	19.4	21.4
Renal Failure	19.2	20.4
Malignancy	7.6	3.6
General Invasive Procedures
Mechanical Ventilation	16.0	6.5
Non-Invasive Ventilation	5.6	3.3
Central Venous Catheterization	13.2	5.1
Hemodialysis	5.9	3.5
Transfusion	18.5	9.7
Cardiac Procedures
Pulmonary Artery Catheterization	0.3	1.9
Mechanical Circulatory Support	0.3	3.6
Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization	3.1	30.9
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	1.5	17.4
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery	0.4	13.7
Length of Stay (days)
Median CICU LOS (IQR)	3 (2–6)	3 (2–5)
Median Hospital LOS (IQR)	6 (3–10)	5 (2–8)
Unadjusted In-Hospital Mortality	10.9	6.3

Mechanical Circulatory Support includes intra-aortic balloon pump placement and ventricular device placement.

Abbreviations: LOS = length of stay; IQR = interquartile range.

p < 0.001 for all comparisons except median CICU LOS. All values are reported as percentages unless otherwise noted