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. 2002 Oct 30;7(1):85–90. doi: 10.1186/cc1843

Table 1.

Clinical diagnoses of the patients

Diagnosis Number of patients
Medical 13
Respiratory insufficiency 6
Neurological disease 5
HELLP syndrome 1
Gastrointestinal haemorrhage 1
Surgical 20
Gastrointestinal surgery 12
Polytrauma 2
Orthopaedic surgery 4
Thoracic surgery 1
Urological surgery 1

HELLP, haemolysis–elevated liver enzymes–low platelets.