. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2014 Mar;120(3):579–589. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000087

Table 2.

Unadjusted Postoperative Outcomes

Characteristic	N	Etomidate N = 1,928	No Etomidate N = 1,199	P-value
Severe hypotension	3127	9.6%	10.8%	0.26
Total time on mechanical ventilation (hours)	2978	8.5 (3.3 to 51.6)	7.4 (2.9 to 117.2)	0.005
Hospital length of stay (days)	3120	6.0 (3.0 to 13.0)	6.0 (3.0 to 18.0)	0.96
Mortality	3127	3.0%	4.2%	0.07

Continuous variables were summarized with Median (10^th, 90^th percentile) and tested with Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test. Categorical variables were summarized with percentages and tested with Chi-Square test.