Figure 1.

Survival rates for patients with and without sepsis-induced DIC.

Notes: DIC was defined according to the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine DIC scores,⁴⁹ as a score of ≥4 on ICU admission. Reproduced from Hayakawa M, Saito S, Uchino S, et al. Characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of severe sepsis of 3195 ICU-treated adult patients throughout Japan during 2011–2013. J Intensive Care. 2016;4:44.⁴

Abbreviations: DIC, disseminated intravascular coagulation; ICU, intensive care unit.