Table 5.
Clinical characteristics of infants admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for bronchiolitis (N = 68) who were treated with antibiotics and those who were not.
| Clinical Characteristics | Antibiotic Treatment N = 22 |
No Antibiotic Treatment N = 46 |
p-Value | OR (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex, male | 11 (50%) | 26 (57%) | 0.613 | 0.8 (0.3 to 2.1) |
| Age (months) * | 4.1 ± 6.0 | 2.9 ± 4.0 | 0.316 | |
| Prematurity | 6 (27%) | 9 (20%) | 0.473 | 1.5 (0.5 to 5.1) |
| Fever > 38 °C | 14 (67%) | 17 (37%) | 0.024 | 3.4 (1.2 to 10.1) |
| Duration of fever (days) * | 2.4 ± 1.9 | 1.5 ± 0.8 | 0.074 | |
| Duration of hypoxia (days) * | 7.5 ± 4.4 | 5.4 ± 3.2 | 0.050 | |
| Length of hospital stay (days) * | 9.3 ± 5.7 | 7.4 ± 4.9 | 0.169 | |
| Length of PICU stay (days) * | 5.6 ± 4.2 | 2.2 ± 2.4 | 0.029 | |
| Mechanic ventilation | 3 (50%) | 7 (54%) | 0.876 | 0.9 (0.1 to 5.9) |
| Infiltrate/atelectasis | 13 (65%) | 17 (41%) | 0.071 | 2.7 (0.9 to 8.3) |
| Leucocytes (cells/mm3) * | 16,367 ± 8547 | 14,615 ± 11,865 | 0.560 | |
| Serum C reactive protein (mg/L) * | 57.1 ± 50.1 | 14.8 ± 17.7 | <0.001 |
* mean ± standard deviation. PICU: pediatric intensive care unit.