A, Cumulative fluid balance for all subjects: Cumulative fluid
balance over study days 1 to 7 for the three cohorts. The conservative and
liberal fluid protocol groups are from the Fluid and Catheter Treatment Trial
(FACTT) of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network and are
referred to as “FACTT Conservative” and “FACTT
Liberal.” The FACTT Lite group is from subsequent ARDS Network studies
that used a simplified fluid conservative protocol. Both the FACTT Conservative
and FACTT Lite groups had significantly less cumulative fluid balance compared
with the FACTT Liberal group (p < 0.001). The FACTT
Lite group had significantly greater cumulative fluid balance over 7 days
compared with the FACTT Conservative group (p < 0.001).
The error bars indicate 95% CIs for cumulative fluid balance on each
study day for each group. The number of subjects included in the analysis for
each day for the FACTT Conservative and Liberal groups was previously reported
(1). The number of subjects included
in the analysis for each day for the FACTT Lite group is as follows:
n = 1,120 (day 1), n =
1,102 (day 2), n = 1,069 (day 3), n
= 1,008 (day 4), n = 921 (day 5),
n = 846 (day 6), and n =
773 (day 7). B, Cumulative fluid balance for subjects without
baseline shock: Cumulative fluid balance over study days 1 to 7 is shown for
subjects without baseline shock in each of the groups. Both the FACTT
Conservative and FACTT Lite groups without baseline shock had significantly less
cumulative fluid balance compared with the FACTT Liberal group without baseline
shock (p < 0.001). The FACTT Lite group had a similar
cumulative fluid balance over 7 days compared with the FACTT Conservative group
(p = 0.06). The error bars indicate 95% CIs
for cumulative fluid balance on each study day for each group.