Table 4.
Vital signs characteristics at admission and ICU-mortality of patients in SICU, (N = 388)
| Variables | Categories | Total (N = 388) |
Outcome | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead (n = 148) | Alive (n = 240) | ||||
| Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | < 90 | 100 (25.8%) | 85 (57.4%) | 15 (6.3%) | |
| 90–140 | 267 (68.8%) | 50 (33.8%) | 217 (90.4%) | ||
| > 140 | 21 (5.4%) | 13 (8.8%) | 8 (3.3%) | ||
| Heart rate (bpm) | < 60 | 17 (4.4%) | 9 (6.1%) | 8 (3.2%) | |
| 60–100 | 100 (25.8%) | 19 (12.8%) | 81 (33.8%) | ||
| > 100 | 271 (69.8%) | 120 (81.1%) | 151 (63%) | ||
| Respiratory rate (breath per minute) | < 12 | 6 (1.6%) | 2 (1.4%) | 4 (1.7%) | |
| 12–20 | 30 (7.8%) | 5 (3.4%) | 25 (10.4%) | ||
| > 20 | 352 (90.7%) | 141 (95.2%) | 211 (87.9%) | ||
| Temperature (oc) | < 36.5 | 92 (23.7%) | 48 (32.4%) | 44 (18.3%) | |
| 36.5–37.5 | 124 (32.0%) | 21 (14.2%) | 103 (42.9%) | ||
| > 37.5 | 172 (44.3%) | 79 (53.4%) | 93 (38.8%) | ||
| Saturation (SPO2) (%) | < 90 | 88 (22.7%) | 66 (44.6%) | 22 (9.2%) | |
| > 90 | 300 (77.3%) | 82 (55.4%) | 218 (90.8%) | ||
| Glasgow Coma Scale | Sever (3–8) | 195 (50.3%) | 135 (91.2%) | 60 (25%) | |
| Moderate (9–13) | 53 (13.6%) | 7 (4.7%) | 46 (19.2%) | ||
| Mild (14–15) | 140 (36.1%) | 6 (4.1%) | 134 (55.8%) | ||
Key:- SICU = Surgical Intensive Care Unit; mmHg = millimeters of mercury; bpm = beats per minute; oc= degrees centigrade