Table 2.

Number of Patients Who Received Organ Support

Vital Organ Support	Patients Receiving Vital Organ Support	Women Receiving Vital Organ Support	Men Receiving Vital Organ Support
Invasive ventilation (n = 697,785)	225,306 (32.2%)	78,510 (25.7%)	146,796 (37.3%)
Noninvasive ventilation (n = 583,077)	62,849 (10.8%)	27,221 (10.6%)	35,628 (10.9%)
Vasoactive medication (n = 587,709)	214,398 (36.3%)	81,940 (31.7%)	132,458 (39.8%)
Renal replacement therapy (n = 575,376)	23,399 (4.1%)	8,688 (3.4%)	14,711 (4.6%)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (n = 574,751)	1,580 (0.3%)	549 (0.2%)	1,031 (0.3%)
Any vital organ support (n = 609,329)	339,722 (55.1%)	131,493 (49.4%)	208,229 (59.5%)

APACHE = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, n = patients with complete data for each organ support.

Data are presented as number and percentage of patients, mean with sd, absolute difference in means (99% CI), or odds ratios (99% CI) (see Table E2, http://links.lww.com/CCM/H424, for further details).