Skip to main content

Table 2 Procedural times, staff utilization, patient in-hospital length of stay and discharge behaviour of TAVI and AVR patients aged ≥ 75 years

From: In-hospital resource utilization in surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement

 

TF-TAVI (60)

TA-TAVI (23)

AVR (27)

Procedural resource utilization

   

Time cathlab/OR (min.)

122.3 ± 40.5 (118.5)

142.3 ± 96.9 (109)

217.7 ± 48.8 (223)

Staff

   

 Physician

3.58 ± 0.59 (4)

3.17 ± 0.72 (3)

2.67 ± 0.62 (3)

 Nurse

2.55 ± 0.59 (3)

2.91 ± 0.29 (3)

2.04 ± 0.19 (2)

Time anesthesia (min.)

238.3 ± 55.4 (245)

247.5 ± 80.4 (220)

327.9 ± 57.6 (325)

 Staff

   

 Physician

1.0 ± 0.0 (1)

1.96 ± 0.21 (2)

1.93 ± 0.27 (2)

 Nurse

1.02 ± 0.34 (1)

0.32 ± 0.02 (0.33)

0.33 ± 0.15 (0.33)

 Perfusionistsa

0 (0)

0 (0)

1.0 ± 0.0 (1)

Post-procedural resource utilization

   

 Time spent in ICU (hours)

105.0 ± 198.6 (62.7)

105.4 ± 100.4 (66.1)

89.0 ± 131.0 (47.2)

 Time on ventilation (hours)

35.8 ± 110.7 (8.6)

35.7 ± 64.6 (9.2)

42.6 ± 115.8 (12.8)

Length of stay (days)

   

 Procedure to discharge

13.1 ± 11.3 (10)

13.0 ± 6.6 (10)

10.6 ± 4.6 (10)

 Post-discharge LoS

0.3 ± 1.4 (0)

8.2 ± 13.6 (0)

5.1 ± 7.0 (4)

 Total hospitalisation since procedure

13.4 ± 11.4 (10)

21.2 ± 15.4 (17)

15.7 ± 10.5 (14)

Discharge destination

   

 Home

46.7 %

13 %

0 %

 Rehabilitation

40 %

26.1 %

44.4 %

 Hospital

5 %

43.5 %

51.9 %

 Nursing Home

3.3 %

0 %

0 %

 In-hospital death

5 %

17.4 %

3.7 %

  1. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation and median in parentheses
  2. aIn our centers an extracorporeal life-support system and perfusionists are on stand-by for all TAVI procedures