Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of enrolled patients at the time of admission

Characteristics	Survivors (n = 56)	Non survivors (n = 15)	p value
Sex (M/F)	30/26	10/5	0.366
Age (years)	54.5 (18–85)	57 (25–85)	0.526
APACHE II	21.5 (9–41)	29 (3–20)	0.026
SAPS II	41 (25–81)	53 (19–93)	0.041
SOFA	8 (1–17)	10 (3–20)	0.272
PCT (ng/mL)	11.56 (0.05–290)	2.025 (0.45–674)	0.054

All values are given as median. Values in parenthesis represent range. p value < 0.05 is considered significant