Table 1.

Patient demographics and clinical information

Patient	Sex	Age (years)	Estimated weight (kg)	SOFA	Admission diagnosis	Infective diagnosis	APACHE II	Albumina (g l−1)
1	F	66	55	16	Respiratory failure	Empiric cover	22	33, 16
2	M	68	79	20	Ischaemic bowel, septic shock	Gram-positive cocci (blood)	48	27, 25
3	M	70	80	14	Abdominal aortic aneurysm, aspiration pneumonia	Staphylococcus haemolyticus and S. epidermidis (blood)	38	28, 24
4	M	62	80	4	Intra-abdominal surgery	Intra-abdominal sepsis	20	25
5	M	62	82	17	Laparatomy for chronic pelvic abscess, septic shock	Klebsiella and Enterococcus faecalis (blood)	28	28
6	F	66	70	19	Febrile neutropenia, acute renal failure	Multi-resistant S. aureus (blood, bronchial)	47	22
7	F	52	55	18	Medical	Empiric	35	20
8	F	51	100	17	Right hepatectomy	Empiric	26	24
9	M	63	110	21	Medical	Empiric		25
10	M	43	80	16	Multi trauma	E. faecalis (blood)	19	23, 16

SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation.

^aAlbumin levels measured on day of study.