Table 1.
Clinical Characteristics of ARDS Patients
| Index patients*
|
Retrospective cohort
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | At Risk | ARDS summary | Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 7 | Day 14 | |
| Age | 28 | 49 | 59 | 47 ± 15 | 43 ± 16 | ||||
| Risk factor | |||||||||
| Sepsis | Yes | 3 | 23 | ||||||
| Trauma | Yes | 5 | 25 | ||||||
| Other | Yes | 0 | 13 | ||||||
| Apache score | 16 | 22 | 20 | 19 ± 8 | 22 ± 7 | 22 ± 6 | 21 ± 9 | 23 ± 8 | 19 ± 3 |
| PaO2/FiO2 | 184 | 271 | 290 | 226 ± 83 | 162 ± 61 | 151 ± 55 | 162 ± 58 | 189 ± 71 | 178 ± 43 |
| Static compliance | nd | nd | nd | 40 ± 10 | 37 ± 13 | 41 ± 15 | 37 ± 10 | 28 ± 9 | 35 ± 17 |
| % BAL volume recovered | 38 | 71 | 33 | 57 ± 11 | 50 ± 14 | 54 ± 12 | 50 ± 15 | 43 ± 11 | 44 ± 19 |
| VAP? | No | Yes | No | ||||||
*
None of the index patients had a diagnosis of pneumonia as a risk factor for acute lung.