Patient characteristics of patients at the James Cook University Hospital (JCUH) and patients receiving PCI in the revascularisation arm of the SHOCK (should we emergently revascularise occluded coronaries for cardiogenic shock?) trial
| Characteristic | JCUH (n = 113) | PCI in SHOCK trial17 (n = 82) |
|---|---|---|
| Data are mean (SD), median (interquartile range), or number (%). | ||
| *History of hyperlipidaemia and taking cholesterol lowering medication, or random total cholesterol on admission ⩾5 mmol/l. | ||
| CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; MI, myocardial infarction; NA, not available; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention. | ||
| Unknown data relate mostly to patients who were too sick to give this information before PCI and for whom no evidence was subsequently found. | ||
| Age range (years) | 26–79 | NA |
| Age (years) | 60.1 (10.5) | 65 (10) |
| Men | 76 (67%) | 62% |
| Anterior MI | 59 (52%) | NA |
| Non-anterior MI | 54 (48%) | NA |
| Primary angioplasty | 41 (36%) | NA |
| Rescue angioplasty for failed thrombolysis | 47 (42%) | Thrombolysis 49% |
| Angioplasty for reinfarction | 25 (22%) | NA |
| Mean chest pain onset to PCI (hours) | 7.4 (5.9) | NA |
| Median chest pain onset to PCI (hours) | 5.8 (3.4–10) | 11.0 (6.1–19.5) |
| Transferred patients | 71 (63%) | 60% |
| Local patients | 42 (37%) | NA |
| Previous MI | 34 (30%) | 23% |
| Diabetes | 21 (19%) | 25% |
| Previous CABG | 3 (2.7%) | 4% |
| Hypertension | 23 (20%) | NA |
| Unknown | 5 (4.4%) | NA |
| Current or former smoker | 80 (71%) | NA |
| Unknown | 6 (5.3%) | NA |
| Hyperlipidaemia* | 70 (62%) | NA |
| Unknown | 5 (4.4%) | NA |