TABLE 2.
Outcome | All Patients (18,508 hr, 353 Filters) | ALF (9,366.5 hr, 176 Filters) | Other Liver Diagnoses (9,141.5 hr, 177 Filters) | ALF vs Other Liver Diagnoses | |||
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n (% of Filters) | Rate Per 1,000 hr | n (%) | Rate Per 1,000 hr | n (% of Filters) | Rate Per 1,000 hr | p | |
Number of episodes of major bleeding | 21 (5.9%) | 1.13 | 10 (5.7%) | 1.07 | 11 (6.2%) | 1.20 | 0.832 |
Number of episodes of minor bleeding | 18 (5.1%) | 0.97 | 11 (6.3%) | 1.17 | 7 (4.0%) | 0.77 | 0.327 |
Number of episodes of hypotension | 41 (11.6%) | 2.22 | 21 (11.9%) | 2.24 | 20 (11.3%) | 2.19 | 0.853 |
Number of platelet transfusions (at 10 mL/kg) | 149.8 | 8.09 | 70.7 | 7.55 | 79.1 | 8.65 | 0.450 |
Number of RBC transfusions (at 15 mL/kg) | 90.9 | 4.91 | 49.9 | 5.33 | 41.1 | 4.50 | 0.357 |
ALF = acute lung failure.