Research Article

Incidence, Associated Factors, and Outcome of Delirium among Patients Admitted to ICUs in Oman

Table 3

Results of a point-biserial correlation test between delirium and continuous variables (n = 153)

Continuous variablespoint-biserial correlation value

Age−0.1110.173
Comorbidity0.0400.623
APACHE II score0.439<0.01
SOFA score0.354<0.01
Sedation0.1930.017
Bilirubin0.0670.407
Creatinine0.1980.014

Continuous variable N pbis Mean (SD) value. Age (years) 245 0.22 58.0 (10.5) < 0.05. Aortic cross clamp duration (minutes) 238 0.11 60.8 (27) > 0.05. Cardiopulmonary bypass pump duration (minutes) 238 0.07 96.7(33.9) > 0.05. Intraoperative crystalloids (mL) 245 0.02 2042.8 (241.9) > 0.05. Intraoperative blood/products (mL) 245 0.08 71.8 (305.7) > 0.05. Duration of surgery (minutes) 245 0.14 257.4 (63.6) < 0.05.