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Table 2 Demographic information about patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

From: The impact of dehydration on short-term postoperative complications in total knee arthroplasty

 

Dehydration level

None

Moderate

Severe

Age

Mean

65.4

67.6

68.5

St. dev.

9.6

9.1

8.9

Count

184,055

90,163

70,359

Body Mass Index (BMI)

Mean

33.2

33.0

32.8

St. dev.

6.7

6.8

6.9

Count

183,653

89,950

70,206

Sex

p < 0.001

Female

Count

83,859

28,703

13,626

Percent

45.5%

31.8%

19.3%

Male

Count

100,195

61,474

56,768

Percent

54.4%

68.1%

80.6%

Non-binary

Count

3

1

1

Percent

0.002%

0.001%

0.001%

Not reported

Count

57

32

25

Percent

0.03%

0.04%

0.04%

Discharge destination

p < 0.001

Home

Count

145,280

69,145

52,023

Percent

78.9%

76.6%

73.9%

Facility Which was Home

Count

863

410

351

Percent

0.5%

0.5%

0.5%

Multi-level Senior Community

Count

20

9

7

Percent

0.01%

0.01%

0.01%

Skilled Care, Not Home

Count

19,769

11,036

9798

Percent

10.7%

12.2%

13.9%

Rehab.

Count

11,126

6127

5664

Percent

6.0%

6.8%

8.0%

Separate Acute Care

Count

262

142

104

Percent

0.1%

0.2%

0.1%

Hospice

Count

6

2

4

Percent

0.003%

0.002%

0.006%

AMA

Count

20

7

1

Percent

0.011%

0.008%

0.001%

Expired

Count

41

27

17

Percent

0.02%

0.03%

0.02%

Unknown

Count

43

18

6

Percent

0.02%

0.02%

0.01%

Unskilled Facility Not Home

Count

157

102

74

Percent

0.1%

0.1%

0.1%

Not reported

Count

6527

3185

2371

Percent

3.5%

3.5%

3.4%

Functional status prior to surgery

p < 0.001

Independent

Count

181,109

88,755

69,180

Percent

98.4%

98.4%

98.2%

Partially Dependent

Count

1972

1005

880

Percent

1.1%

1.1%

1.2%

Totally Dependent

Count

52

32

38

Percent

0.03%

0.04%

0.05%

Unknown

Count

981

418

322

Percent

0.5%

0.5%

0.5%

Anesthesia type

p < 0.001

General

Count

87,777

40,191

30,633

Percent

47.7%

44.6%

43.5%

Monitored Anesthetisia Care (MAC)/Intravenous(IV) Sedation

Count

24,049

11,898

9192

Percent

13.1%

13.2%

13.1%

Regional

Count

3026

1451

1183

Percent

1.6%

1.6%

1.7%

Spinal

Count

67,337

35,709

28,691

Percent

36.6%

39.6%

40.7%

Epidural

Count

1626

848

631

Percent

0.9%

0.9%

0.9%

Local

Count

52

28

23

Percent

0.03%

0.03%

0.03%

Other

Count

171

51

41

Percent

0.1%

0.1%

0.1%

None

Count

46

23

17

Percent

0.02%

0.03%

0.02%

Unknown

Count

22

5

6

Percent

0.01%

0.01%

0.01%

Not reported

Count

8

6

3

Percent

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Diabetes management

p < 0.001

None

Count

152,605

74,217

57,826

Percent

82.9%

82.3%

82.1%

Non-insulin

Count

24,080

12,285

9600

Percent

13.1%

13.6%

13.6%

Insulin

Count

6938

3446

2763

Percent

3.8%

3.8%

3.9%

Oral

Count

491

262

231

Percent

0.3%

0.3%

0.3%

History of dyspnea

p < 0.001

No

Count

173,717

85,284

66,745

Percent

94.4%

94.5%

94.8%

At rest

Count

358

137

111

Percent

0.2%

0.2%

0.2%

Moderate

Count

10,039

4789

3564

Percent

5.5%

5.3%

5.1%

Smoking history within 1 year

p < 0.001

No

Count

164,847

84,467

66,684

Percent

89.5%

93.6%

94.7%

Yes

Count

19,267

5743

3736

Percent

10.5%

6.4%

5.3%

  1. Severely demographic and medical factors were considered from the dataset and displayed here. For age and BMI, means and standard deviations were calculated. For all others, counts and percentages were calculated. All counts are “valid” counts, meaning they were only tallied if the patient had a known value for the given variable. P-values on the left-hand side indicate the results of Chi-squared tests of independence