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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2012 Jun 6;181(1):121–128. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.05.058

Table 4.

Clinical outcome parameters.

n Control
76
PICCO
76
p-value
Number of OR 4.8 ± 0.5 5.8 ± 0.5 NS
Time btw OR (days) 5.6 ± 0.2 4.8 ± 0.6 NS
LOS ICU (days) 36.7 ± 4.8 34.2 ± 2.9 NS
LOS/TBSA 0.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.0 NS
Sepsis n (%) 13 (17.1) 7 (9.2) NS
Number of Infections 2.6 ± 0.5 3.7 ± 0.5 NS
Died n (%) 19 (25.0) 12 (15.8) NS

PiCCO and Control patients had a similar rate of clinical interventions with a similar length of stay in the ICU. Patients in the PiCCO group had a slightly higher infection rate but signalized better outcomes with a lower incidence of sepsis and mortality rate (not significant).