Table 4.
Development vital capacity
| Central diagnoses | Peripheral diagnoses | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total sample (n = 780) | STI (n = 329) | STH (n = 131) | CIPM (n = 74) | NWA (n = 89) | |||||||||||
| VC t0 | VC t1 | p value | VC t0 | VC t1 | p value | VC t0 | VC t1 | p value | VC t0 | VC t1 | p value | VC t0 | VC t1 | p value | |
| FAC at t0 | |||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1500 | 1800 | < 0.001* | 1500 | 1700 | 0.022* | 1200 | 1700 | 0.001* | 1900 | 1800 | 0.195 | 1300 | 2000 | 0.01* |
| 1 | 1650 | 2000 | 0.079* | 1900 | 2000 | 0.475* | 1450 | 2400 | 0.052* | 1300 | 1700 | 0.500 | |||
| 2 | 1500 | 1500 | 0.047* | 1200 | 1200 | 0.291* | 1800 | 2350 | 0.098* | 1300 | 1300 | 1.000 | |||
| 3 | 1900 | 2000 | 0.832* | 1600 | 1650 | 0.385* | 1450 | 2350 | 0.219* | 2000 | 2200 | 0.609 | |||
| 4 | 2000 | 2300 | 0.028* | 2050 | 2150 | 0.559* | 2200 | 2200 | 1.000* | NA | NA | NA | |||
| 5 | 2700 | 2800 | 0.062* | 2700 | 2500 | 0.488* | 2700 | 2850 | 0.195* | 3900 | 3200 | 1.000 | |||
FAC Functional Ambulation Categories, VC Median vital capacity in Cubic centimeter (ccm), t0- start of inpatient rehabilitation, t1- end of inpatient rehabilitation, p value- derived from paired Wilcoxon test- *p < 0.05, STI ischemic stroke, STH hemorrhagic stroke, CIPM Critical Illness Polyneuropathy or –Myopathy, NWA patients who did not reach walking ability neither at the beginning nor at the end of rehabilitation- this subgroup n = 89 is composed as follows 45(STI) + 24(STH) + 10(CIPM) + 10(other neurological diagnosis)