Table 1.

Patient demographics.

	Survivor group (n = 20)	Nonsurvivor group (n = 10)	p value
Age (y.o.)	56 ± 3 [27–78]	64 ± 5 [35–79]	0.147
Gender: male/female	12/8	7/3	0.866
Infection site
Abdominal	2	0
Lung	7	7
Urinary	3	1
Blood	4	1
Unknown	4	1
Treatment
Operation	1	3
Ventilation	8	5
Hemofiltoration	3	2
Blood culture positive (%)	3 (15)	4 (40)	0.312
Gram-positive coccus	5	2
Gram-negative bacillus	0	2
Others	1	1
Baseline SAPS II score	38 ± 3 [21–59]	59 ± 6 [29–86]	0.012