Perioperative advanced haemodynamic monitoring of patients undergoing multivisceral debulking surgery: an observational pilot study

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Descriptive preoperative data of patient characteristics

	Overall	No complications	Complications	p-value
n	29	22	7
Age (years)	59 [50, 61]	56 [50, 60]	64 [59, 68]	0.049
BMI (kg m⁻²)	24.2 [21.8, 27.9]	24.9 [21.8, 27.7]	23.3 [22.1, 26.6]	0.823
ASA classification
1	3 (10)	1 (5)	2 (29)	0.221
2	17 (59)	14 (64)	3 (43)
3	9 (31)	7 (32)	2 (29)
NYHA classification
1	23 (79)	18 (82)	5 (71)	0.612
2	6 (21)	4 (18)	2 (29)
Apfel score (PONV)
1	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1.000
2	3 (10)	2 (9)	1 (14)
3	18 (62)	14 (64)	4 (57)
4	8 (28)	6 (27)	2 (29)
MET score	5 [3, 6]	5 [3, 6]	5 [3, 6]	0.917
Comorbidities und medication
Charlson Comorbidity Index	2 [2, 3]	3 [2, 6]	2 [2]	0.017
Arterial hypertension	8 (28)	6 (27)	2 (29)	1.000
Antihypertensive medication	8 (28)	6 (27)	2 (29)	1.000
Other long-term medication	29 (100)	22 (100)	7 (100)	1.000
POSSUM Score
Morbidity	53.5 [38.5, 62.5]	53.4 [33.6, 62.5]	55.0 [42.8, 66.5]	0.524
Mortality	2.6 [1.7, 3.9]	2.6 [1.5, 3.8]	3.3 [2.0, 4.2]	0.523

Data are shown as median [Q25, Q75] or as n-number (%). p-values were calculated with the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney rank-sum test for metric data and the Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables. ASA American Society of Anaesthesiologists, BMI body mass index, MET score metabolic equivalent of task activity-score, NYHA New York Heart Association, PONV postoperative nausea and vomiting, POSSUM Score physiological and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity