Table 2.
Demographic and clinical data for septic shock patients
| Parameter | Patients (n = 13) |
|---|---|
| Age at admission (years) | 60 (4) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 7 |
| MacCabe score | |
| 0 | 10 |
| 1 | 3 |
| Main diagnosis category | |
| Medical | 8 |
| Surgical | 5 |
| SAPS II score at diagnosis of shock | 51 (3) |
| Adjunctive corticosteroid treatment | 7 |
| Delay shock - ICU (days) | ≤1 |
| Infection diagnosis | |
| Radiologically diagnosed | 1 |
| Surgically diagnosed | 0 |
| Microbiologically documented | 11 |
| Bacilli Gram-negative | 5 |
| Bacilli Gram-positive | 6 |
| Fungi | 1 |
| Others | 1 |
| Type of infection | |
| Community-acquired | 10 |
| Hospital-acquired | 3 |
| ICU-acquired | 0 |
| Site of infection | |
| Pulmonary | 6 |
| Abdominal | 4 |
| Others | 3 |
| Mortality | |
| Survivors | 10 |
Data presented as n or mean (standard error of the mean). ICU, intensive care unit; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II.