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[Preprint]. 2023 Dec 6:rs.3.rs-3692289. [Version 1] doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3692289/v1

Table 1.

Demographics, patient characteristics, and clinical outcomes among pediatric septic shock latent profile phenotypes in the derivation and validation sets.

Derivation set (n=646) P value Validation set (n=425) P value
Inflamed (n=126) Uninflamed (n=520) Inflamed (n=71) Uninflamed (n=354)
Age (Years) 4.7 (1.3, 13.7) 5.4 (1.8, 10.8) 0.698 6.2 (1.8, 14.0) 5.5 (1.8, 10.4) 0.480
Sex (Female) 57 (45.2%) 246 (47.3%) 0.676 39 (54.9%) 174 (49.2%) 0.374
Race 0.924 0.439
White or Caucasian 89 (70.7%) 376 (72.3%) 55 (77.4%) 263 (74.3%)
Black or African American 16 (12.7%) 64 (12.3%) 6 (8.4%) 49 (13.8%)
Other 21 (16.7%) 80 (15.4%) 10 (14.1%) 42 (11.9%)
Ethnicity 0.214 0.063
Hispanic or Latino 12 (9.5%) 71 (13.6%) 3 (4.2%) 41 (11.6%)
Non-Hispanic 114 (90.5%) 449 (86.4%) 68 (95.7%) 313 (88.4%)
Culture:
Any positive culture 71 (56.4%) 309 (59.4%) 0.529 44 (61.9%) 198 (55.9%) 0.348
Pulmonary 23 (18.2%) 133 (25.6%) 13 (18.3%) 68 (19.2%)
Extra-pulmonary 48 (38.1%) 175 (33.6%) 31 (43.7%) 130 36.7%)
Positive blood culture 33 (26.2%) 100 (19.2%) 0.083 24 (33.8%) 73 (20.6%) 0.016
Pathogen type: 0.577 0.467
Gram positive 26 (36.6%) 121 (39.2%) 18 (40.9%) 78 (39.4%)
Gram negative 28 (39.4%) 122 (39.4%) 17 (38.6%) 88 (44.4%)
Viral 7 (9.8%) 38 (12.3%) 3 (6.8%) 16 (8.1%)
Fungal 7 (9.8%) 15 (4.8%) 4 (9.0%) 6 (13.6%)
Mixed 3 (4.2%) 13 (4.2%) 2 (4.5%) 8 (4.1%)
Comorbidity
Heart disease 9 (7.1%) 35 (6.7%) 0.869 4 (5.6%) 24 (6.8%) 0.722
Lung disease 12 (9.5%) 50 (9.6%) 0.975 7 (9.8%) 22 (6.2%) 0.281
Neurologic disease 10 (7.9%) 107 (20.6%) 0.001 9 (12.7%) 67 (18.9%) 0.194
Kidney disease 19 (15.1%) 13 (2.5%) 0.001 5 (7.0%) 10 (2.8%) 0.079
Liver disease 10 (7.9%) 25 (4.8%) 0.164 12 (16.9%) 28 (7.9%) 0.018
Solid organ transplant 5 (4.0%) 13 (2.5%) 0.369 4 (5.6%) 16 (4.5%) 0.686
Oncologic disease 26 (20.6%) 56 (10.8%) 0.003 11 (15.5%) 42 (11.9%) 0.398
Bone marrow transplant 17 (13.5%) 22 (4.3%) <0.001 9 (12.8%) 29 (8.2%) 0.227
PRISM III 16 (9, 24) 11 (6, 16) <0.001 16 (11, 23) 10 (6, 15) <0.001
Day 1 VIS 30 (10, 100) 15 (7, 40) <0.001 40 (13, 150) 16 (8, 31) <0.001
Day 1 P/F <250 31 (24.6%) 118 (22.7%) 0.648 23 (32.4%) 69 (19.5%) <0.016
PICU LOS 7 (2, 15) 6 (2, 12) 0.673 7 (2, 14) 5 (2, 11) 0.815
PICU Free days 22 (12, 26) 22 (16, 26) 0.668 23 (32.4%) 23 (17, 26) 0.804
Hospital LOS 14 (5, 28) 13 (7, 27) 0.955 15 (3, 28) 14 (7, 26) 0.441
7-day mortality 31 (24.6%) 27 (5.2%) <0.001 20 (28.2%) 19 (5.4%) <0.001
28-day mortality 41 (32.5%) 46 (8.9%) <0.001 25 (35.2%) 30 (8.5%) <0.001
Complicated course 75 (59.5%) 138 (26.5%) <0.001 48 (67.6%) 96 (27.1%) <0.001
Cardiac arrest 67 (53.2%) 76 (14.6%) <0.001 38 (53.5%) 55 (15.5%) <0.001
Day 7 Cardiovascular dysfunction 54 (42.845.5%) 85 (16.4%) <0.001 36 (50.7%) 71 (20.1%) <0.001
Day 7 Respiratory Dysfunction 72 (57.2%) 170 (32.7%) <0.001 46 (64.8%) 120 (33.9%) <0.001
Day 7 Kidney Dysfunction 64 (50.8%) 104 (20.0%) <0.001 42 (59.2%) 68 (19.2%) <0.001
Day 7 Neuro Dysfunction 27 (21.4%) 24 (4.6%) <0.001 19 (26.8%) 19 (5.4%) <0.001
Day 7 Hematologic Dysfunction 59 (46.8%) 79 (15.2%) <0.001 36 (50.7%) 48 (13.6% 0 <0.001
Day 7 Hepatic Dysfunction 50 (39.7%) 57 (11.0%) <0.001 34 (47.9%) 31 (8.8%) <0.001
Day 7 Vasoactive support† 28/70 (40.0%) 55/278 (19.7%) <0.001 15/39 (38.4%) 40/173 (23.1%) <0.001
Day 7 Mechanical ventilation † 51/70 (72.8%) 164/278 (58.9%) 0.033 30/39 (76.9%) 101/173 (58.3%) 0.031
Day 7 CRRT † 27/70 (38.6%) 22/278 (7.9%) <0.001 10/39 (25.6%) 12/173 (6.9%) <0.001
Day 1–7 % positive fluid balance 6.6 (1.9, 16.6%) 4.9 (0.0, 11.7) 0.016 8.3 (1.7, 17.8) 4.9 (0.7, 11.6) 0.008
Any ECMO 2 (1.6%) 1 (0.2%) 0.039 1 (1.4%) 1 (0.3%) 0.345
Corticosteroids 82 (65.1%) 279 (53.7%) 0.020 53 (74.7%) 187 (52.8%) <0.001

Abbreviations:

PRISM III Pediatric risk of mortality score -III

VIS: Vasoactive inotropic score

P/F: PaO2/FiO2 ratio.

LOS: Length of stay

CRRT: Continuous renal replacement therapy

ECMO: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.