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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2014 Nov;15(9):846–855. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000223

Table 2.

The percentage of patients who received each type of sodium containing fluid by day. The median [IQR] sodium concentrations (mEq/dL) received by day are presented by survival groups.

DAY of EVD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
N 380 372 349 300 243 209 173 151 115 100 83 70 59 48
Percent of patients Receiving Each Sodium Containing Fluid By day of Management
Three percent saline 35 (9) 34 (9) 30 (8) 29 (10) 24 (10) 12 (6) 11 (6) 10 (7) 7 (6) 6 (6) 7 (8) 6 (9) 3 (5) 2 (4)
Quarter Normal Saline 1 (0.3) 2 (0.5) 1 (0.3) 1 (0.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1.4) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Half Normal Saline 10 (2.6) 5 (1.3) 2 (0.6) 4 (1.3) 4 (1.6) 8 (3.8) 5 (2.9) 3 (2) 1 (0.9) 2 (2) 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Normal Saline 366 (96) 331 (89) 295 (85) 238 (79) 195 (80) 164 (79) 135 (78) 116 (77) 86 (75) 71 (71) 61 (74) 47 (67) 41 (70) 45 (94)
TPN 9 (2.4) 10 (2.7) 19 (5) 21 (7) 23 (10) 30 (14) 18 (10) 12 (8) 11 (10) 11 (11) 8 (10) 8 (11) 6 (10) 4 (8)
oral sodium 3 (0.8) 7 (1.9) 9 (2.6) 11 (3.7) 9 (3.7) 7 (3.3) 9 (5.2) 8 (5.3) 8 (7) 9 (9) 9 (11) 7 (10) 9 (15) 7 (15)
Alive (N) 352 319 279 232 193 163 135 112 80 67 58 47 39 29
Alive 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154] 154 [154,154]
Dead (N) 19 19 18 15 14 13 10 10 10 9 7 7 6 4
dead 154 [154,208] 154 [129, 182] 154 [154,204] 154 [122,234] 154 [108, 216] 154 [94,224] 154 [87, 236] 154 [87, 236] 154 [89, 217] 154 [100, 187] 171 [154, 304] 154 [77, 310] 128 [77, 295] 115 [77, 154]
p-value 0.14 0.47 0.047 0.1 0.016 0.95 0.69 0.54 0.59 0.78 0.01 0.47 0.43 0.009