Table 2: Concurrent acute illnesses of adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit for sepsis.
Variable | % (no.)* |
p value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All patients (n = 369) | Centre 1 (n = 174) | Centre 2 (n = 114) | Centre 3 (n = 81) | ||
Acute renal failure |
61 (224) |
62 (108) |
72 (82) |
42 (34) |
< 0.001 |
Myocardial infarction |
35 (128) |
33 (57) |
59 (67) |
5 (4) |
< 0.001 |
Maximal serum lactic acid ≥ 4.0 mmol/L |
35 (128) |
24 (41) |
48 (55) |
40 (32) |
< 0.001 |
ARDS or ALI |
31 (115) |
30 (53) |
39 (44) |
22 (18) |
0.049 |
Cardiac arrhythmia |
24 (89) |
18 (32) |
22 (25) |
40 (32) |
0.001 |
Maximal INR ≥ 2.0 |
23 (84) |
14 (24) |
34 (39) |
26 (21) |
< 0.001 |
Acute pulmonary edema |
17 (61) |
17 (29) |
11 (13) |
23 (19) |
0.08 |
Massive hemorrhage |
13 (48) |
21 (37) |
9 (10) |
1 (1) |
< 0.001 |
Ischemic bowel disease |
6 (23) |
8 (14) |
4 (5) |
5 (4) |
0.5 |
Stroke |
3 (10) |
2 (4) |
4 (5) |
1 (1) |
0.5 |
No. of acute illnesses per patient, median (IQR) |
2 (1 to 3) |
2 (1 to 3) |
3 (2 to 4) |
2 (1 to 3) |
< 0.001 |
Patients with no concurrent acute illness |
9 (34) |
9 (15) |
4 (4) |
19 (15) |
0.002 |
Patients with ≥ 1 concurrent acute illnesses |
91 (335) |
91 (159) |
96 (110) |
81 (66) |
0.002 |
Patients with ≥ 2 concurrent acute illnesses | 72 (265) | 70 (121) | 85 (97) | 58 (47) | < 0.001 |
Note: ALI = acute lung injury, ARDS = acute respiratory distress syndrome, INR = international normalized ratio, IQR = interquartile range. *Unless stated otherwise.