Table 2.

Acute illness severity and treatments performed of patients with NLVEF compared with HDLVEF

	NLVEF	HDLVEF	p value
Acute illness indicators
SOFA score	6 [3–9]	7 [4–10]	<0.01
Sepsis	1025 (40 %)	150 (46 %)	0.04
Heart rate maximum, beats/min	113 [98–130]	120 [103–139]	<0.01
MAP minimum, mmHg	56 [48–64]	52 [43–62]	<0.01
Temperature maximum (°C)	37.8 [37.3–38.5]	37.9 [37.4–38.5]	0.6
Selected laboratory results
WBC max k/μL	13.3 [9.4–18.3]	14.6 [10.2–20.5]	<0.01
Lactate max mMol/L	2.1 [1.4–3.7]	2.6 [1.6–4.8]	<0.01
Creat max mg/dL	1.1 [0.8–1.8]	1.2 [0.8–2.0]	0.04
Treatments received
Renal replacement	288 (11 %)	50 (15 %)	0.04
Vasopressor use	741 (29 %)	125 (39 %)	<0.01
Mechanical ventilation	1298 (51 %)	198 (61 %)	<0.01
IV fluids, L (first 24 h)	2.2 [0.6–5.2]	2.5 [0.7–5.7]	0.2

HDLVEF hyperdynamic left ventricular ejection fraction on echocardiogram, IV intravenous, MAP mean arterial pressure, NLVEF normal left ventricular ejection fraction on echocardiogram, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, WBC white blood cell count

Acute illness severity and treatments performed for patients with NLVEF compared with HDLVEF are displayed as either n (%) or median [IQR]. p Values <0.01 are listed in bold