Table 6.

Complications and mortality in 808 patients hospitalized during Hajj of the Islamic year 1423 (2003).

Complications	n (%)
Severe illness requiring admission to intensive care units	67 (8.3)
Severe illness requiring mechanical ventilation	27 (3.3)
Respiratory failure	13 (1.6)
Severe anemia requiring blood transfusion	10 (1.3)
Septic shock	9 (1.1)
Cardiogenic shock	8 (1.0)
Acute renal failure not requiring dialysis	4 (0.5)
Hypovolemic shock	4 (0.5)
Acute confusional state	4 (0.5)
Cardiac arrest successfully resuscitated	2 (0.2)
Arrhythmias	2 (0.2)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)	2 (0.2)
Convulsions	2 (0.2)
Diabetic ketoacidosis	2 (0.2)
Acute renal failure requiring dialysis	1 (0.1)
Coma	1 (0.1)
Mortality*	5 (0.6)

^*The mortality among 140 (17.3%) patients transferred to other permanent hospitals in Makkah and 19 (2.3%) patients discharged against medical advice was not studied.