Association between the shock index on admission and in-hospital mortality in the cardiac intensive care unit
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Utilizing Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Devices in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock
Published on: June 12, 2021
Mitchell Padkins1, Kianoush Kashani2,3, Meir Tabi4
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America.
Background:
An elevated shock index (SI) predicts worse outcomes in multiple clinical arenas. We aimed to determine whether the SI can aid in mortality risk stratification in unselected cardiac intensive care unit patients.
Methods:
We included admissions to the Mayo Clinic from 2007 to 2015 and stratified them based on admission SI. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality, and predictors of in-hospital mortality were analyzed using multivariable logistic regression.
Results:
We included 9,939 unique cardiac intensive care unit patients with available data for SI. Patients were grouped by SI as follows: < 0.6, 3,973 (40%); 0.6-0.99, 4,810 (48%); and ≥ 1.0, 1,156 (12%). After multivariable adjustment, both heart rate (adjusted OR 1.06 per 10 beats per minute higher; CI 1.02-1.10; p-value 0.005) and systolic blood pressure (adjusted OR 0.94 per 10 mmHg higher; CI 0.90-0.97; p-value < 0.001) remained associated with higher in-hospital mortality. As SI increased there was an incremental increase in in-hospital mortality (adjusted OR 1.07 per 0.1 beats per minute/mmHg higher, CI 1.04-1.10, p-Value < 0.001). A higher SI was associated with increased mortality across all examined admission diagnoses.
Conclusion:
The SI is a simple and universally available bedside marker that can be used at the time of admission to predict in-hospital mortality in cardiac intensive care unit patients.
