TABLE 2.
Distribution of Tmaxs at various intervals before and after an IPBC was obtained from 1,436 adult patients in seven different United States medical centers
| Time interval | No. of temps recorded at each time interval (% temps that were a Tmax) fora:
|
Totals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ctr 1 | Ctr 2 | Ctr 3 | Ctr 4 | Ctr 5 | Ctr 6 | Ctr 7 | ||
| Amt of time before the T-IPBC | ||||||||
| More than 24 h | 27 (11) | 12 (17) | 1 (0) | 4 (25) | 7 (0) | 31 (16) | 55 (5) | 137 (10) |
| Sixteen to 24 h | 35 (23) | 23 (26) | 20 (5) | 39 (18) | 39 (18) | 27 (22) | 24 (8) | 207 (18) |
| Eight to 16 h | 38 (26) | 23 (13) | 26 (27) | 28 (14) | 37 (35) | 41 (15) | 17 (24) | 210 (22) |
| Two to 8 h | 78 (21) | 77 (26) | 60 (22) | 86 (15) | 72 (38) | 97 (22) | 76 (17) | 546 (23) |
| One or 2 h | 31 (3) | 38 (18) | 32 (22) | 46 (37) | 58 (29) | 41 (20) | 28 (21) | 274 (23) |
| Thirty to 60 min | 40 (0) | 38 (26) | 22 (18) | 48 (21) | 46 (17) | 32 (25) | 34 (24) | 260 (18) |
| Zero to 30 min | 41 (2) | 44 (25) | 43 (14) | 35 (14) | 33 (18) | 28 (16) | 28 (29) | 252 (16) |
| T-IPBC | 16 (38) | 28 (36) | 9 (0) | 38 (74) | 11 (27) | 2 (0) | 4 (0) | 138 (44) |
| Amt of time after the T-IPBC | ||||||||
| Zero to 30 min | 20 (0) | 33 (18) | 12 (42) | 38 (13) | 31 (19) | 17 (29) | 9 (44) | 160 (19) |
| Thirty to 60 min | 7 (14) | 22 (32) | 11 (18) | 24 (17) | 28 (7) | 15 (60) | 9 (78) | 116 (28) |
| One or 2 h | 15 (13) | 28 (21) | 7 (14) | 34 (12) | 29 (14) | 26 (31) | 34 (32) | 173 (21) |
| Two to 8 h | 62 (26) | 70 (31) | 54 (17) | 79 (24) | 76 (18) | 86 (31) | 61 (31) | 488 (26) |
| Eight to 16 h | 63 (41) | 52 (27) | 57 (12) | 58 (40) | 64 (44) | 75 (24) | 59 (37) | 428 (32) |
| Sixteen to 24 h | 38 (32) | 51 (43) | 45 (13) | 58 (43) | 79 (42) | 39 (28) | 91 (14) | 401 (30) |
| More than 24 h | 36 (28) | 30 (40) | 9 (22) | 2 (50) | 8 (25) | 15 (13) | 47 (19) | 147 (26) |
a
Ctr, center.