Table 4.
Prevalence of most common complications and neurologic deficits in groups with varied surgical delays. Bolded cells with an asterisk represent a significance of P < .05.
|
Complications |
Same Day, % |
1 d, % |
2 d, % |
3–6 d, % |
7–14 d, % |
14–30 d, % |
P
Value |
| Most common | Anemia (6.1) | Infection (7.9) | Sepsis (8.2) | Sepsis (10.6) | Sepsis (14.5) | Sepsis (19.3) | — |
| Second most common | Device (3.3) | Sepsis (7.1) | Anemia (6.1) | Anemia (6.8) | Anemia (8.4) | Anemia (10.5) | — |
| Third most common | Infection (2.0) | Anemia (6.9) | Infection (6.0) | Infection (5.4) | Infection (5.4) | Infection (8.5) | — |
| Mortality | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.15 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 5.5 | < .001* |
| Rate of any complication | 16.7 | 25.6 | 23.8 | 27.1 | 33.2 | 42.5 | < .001* |
| Neurologic index | |||||||
| Incomplete neurologic deficit | 7.2 | 11.9 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 12.9 | 14.7 | < .001* |
| Complete neurologic deficit | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | < .001* |