Table 3.

Percentage of patients of each group that received packed red blood cell transfusion, enteral feeds and 2 or more vasoactive drugs at different study points

	12 h		24 h		36 h		48 h		60 h		72 h
	PFS	SFS	PFS	SFS	PFS	SFS	PFS	SFS	PFS	SFS	PFS	SFS
(N)	37	39	37	39	37	39	36	39	33	38	24	37
PRBC	5%*	28%	27%	26%	14%	10%	6%	10%	3%	5%	0%	3%
Enteral Feeds	16%*	0%	59%*	28%	84%*	49%	92%	77%	84%	87%	83%	78%
VIS			3.43	7.76*			5.07	7.87			3.22*	6.37
≥2 VAD			11%	18%			16%	31%			3%*	21%

Highest calculated vasoactive inotropic score during the first, second and third day. (*P < 0.05)

Abbreviations: PFS preemptive fluid strategy, SFS standard fluid strategy, PRBC packed red blood cell transfusion, VAD vasoactive drugs, VIS vasoactive inotropic score