Table 5.
Analysis of patients who were ever triaged blue or met exclusion criteria
| Survived | Expired | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exclusion criteria/MQS | triaged blue | Total | Exclusion criteria/MQS | triaged blue | Total | |
| N | 13 | 17 | 30 | 43 | 20 | 63 |
| 90-day status* | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| N (%) | 0 | 1 (5.9) | 1 (3.3) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Life support (%) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Medical care (%) | 1 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Awaiting cc/rehab | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Discharged | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| N (%) | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| Home | 6 (46.1) | 7 (23.3) | 13 (43.3) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Chronic care | 4 (30.8) | 0 | 4 (13.3) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Acute care | 3 (23.1) | 5 (29.4) | 8 (26.7) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Rehab | 0 | 5 (29.4) | 5 (16.7) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Time of endpoint | ||||||
| Admission | 13 (100) | 3 (17.7) | 16 (53.3) | 40 (93.0) | 9 (45.0) | 49 (77.8) |
| 48 hours | 10 (58.8) | 10 (33.3) | 1 (2.3) | 11 (55.0) | 12 (19.1) | |
| 120 hours | 4 (23.5) | 4 (13.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| other | N/A | 0 | 2 (4.7) | 0 | 2 (3.2) | |
|
Blue triage SOFA criteria |
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| Admission > 11 | N/A | 3 | N/A | 9 | ||
| 48 hour > 11 | N/A | 1 | N/A | 6 | ||
| 48 hour 8-11 & no change | N/A | 9 | N/A | 4 | ||
| 120 hour > 11 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 1 | ||
| 120 hour < 8 & no change | N/A | 4 | N/A | 0 | ||
| Exclusion criteria | ||||||
| Severe trauma | 0 | N/A | 4 | N/A | ||
| Severe burn | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| Cardiac arrest | 1 | N/A | 12 | N/A | ||
| Severe cognitive impairment | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| Advanced neuromuscular disease | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| Metastatic malignancy | 5 | N/A | 6 | N/A | ||
| Advanced & irreversible immunocompromise | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| Severe & irreversible neurologic event/condition | 1 | N/A | 12 | N/A | ||
| End-stage heart failure | 1 | N/A | 1 | N/A | ||
| End-stage lung failure | 0 | N/A | 3 | N/A | ||
| End-stage liver failure | 1 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| Age > 85 | 3 | N/A | 10 | N/A | ||
| > 6 u PRBC within 24 hours | 1 | N/A | 1 | N/A | ||
| Elective palliative surgery | 1 | N/A | 0 | N/A | ||
| SOFA > 11 non-triage days | 0 | N/A | 2 | N/A | ||
* if still admitted to hospital
cc = chronic care; MQS = minimum qualifications for survival; N/A = not available; PRBC = packed red blood cells; rehab = rehabilitation; SOFA = sequential organ failure assessment.