Gait Speed Is Not Associated with Vasogenic Shock or Cardiogenic Shock following Cardiac Surgery, but Is Associated with Increased Hospital Length of Stay
Table 1
Baseline characteristics for the study patients stratified into tertiles of gait speeds.
Slow (<0.83 m/s)
Intermediate (0.83–1 m/s)
Fast (>1 m/s)
value
Age (median (Q1, Q3))
70.00 (65.00, 76.50)
64.00 (55.00, 75.00)
58.00 (50.25, 67.00)
<0.0001
Gender (%)
0.1530
Female
12 (38.7)
57 (26.4)
18 (20.9)
Male
19 (61.3)
159 (73.6)
68 (79.1)
STS score (median (Q1, Q3))
2 (1, 3)
1(1, 3)
1 (0, 2)
0.0019
Procedure (%)
0.7724
Aortic
4 (12.9)
30 (13.9)
14 (16.3)
Isolated CABG
9 (29.0)
86 (39.8)
33 (38.4)
Isolated valve
6 (19.4)
50 (23.1)
21 (24.4)
CABG valve
7 (22.6)
30 (13.9)
12 (14.0)
Others
5 (16.1)
20 (9.3)
6 (7.0)
Emergent/urgent (%)
3 (9.7)
2 (0.9)
3 (3.5)
0.0095
BMI (mean (SD))
31.00 (5.24)
29.95 (6.85)
28.42 (4.63)
0.0715
Race (%)
0.8274
White
23 (79.3)
175 (85.4)
72 (85.7)
Black
3 (10.3)
15 (7.3)
5 (6.0)
Others
3 (10.3)
15 (7.3)
7 (8.3)
Diabetes (%)
12 (38.7)
66 (30.6)
26 (30.2)
0.6398
CHF (%)
11 (35.5)
45 (20.8)
28 (32.6)
0.0410
Preoperative systolic heart failure (%)
7 (23.3)
63 (30.0)
18 (21.2)
0.2698
Prior stroke (%)
3 (9.7)
9 (4.2)
3 (3.5)
0.3078
Peripheral arterial disease (%)
2 (6.5)
19 (8.8)
5 (5.8)
0.6546
Preoperative dysrhythmia (%)
6 (19.4)
47 (21.8)
10 (11.6)
0.1274
Chronic lung disease (%)
21 (67.7)
115 (53.2)
27 (31.4)
0.0003
Tobacco abuse (%)
10 (32.3)
101 (46.8)
35 (40.7)
0.2489
CPB minutes (mean (SD))
117.48 (64.86)
105.12 (38.87)
112.88 (44.89)
0.1775
BMI = body mass index; SD = standard deviation; CHF = congestive heart failure; CBP = cardiopulmonary bypass time.
