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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Earlier surgical intervention in congenital heart disease results in better outcome and resource utilization

Variables

Group A (1 month - 1 year) Mean ± SD

Group B (1 -5 years) Mean ± SD

p-value

Age (months)

6.08 ± 2.80

37.10 ± 19.94

 

Cardiopulmonary bypass (mns)

155.22 ± 82.32

142.92 ± 96.23

0.363

Aortic cross clamp (mns)

77.55 ± 39.29

72.89 ± 51.10

0.451

Extubation time (hrs)

50.09 ± 69.77

35.72 ± 59.75

0.114

Length of cardiac ICU (days)

8.40 ± 6.82

5.63 ± 3.17

0.012

Length of hospital stay (days)

12.61 ± 9.78

8.58 ± 4.36

0.007

Non cardiac structural abnormalities

5

5

 

Presence of complication [n (%)]

34 (79.1)

31 (58.5)

0.022

> 1 complication [n (%)]

19 (44.2)

14 (26.4)

0.051

Number of complications [n (%)]

33 (76.7)

26 (49.1)

0.019