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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 Feb;20(2):e61–e69. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001779

Table 2.

Admitting Diagnoses and Therapies Received

Admitting Diagnoses Compatible
(n = 342)
Major Incompatibility
( n = 133)
Minor
Incompatibility
(n = 28)
p-values
Reason for PICU Admission, n (%):
 Organ Failure
  Respiratory insufficiency/failure 141 (41) 53 (40) 10 (36) 0.83
  Renal failure 32 (9) 16 (12) 1 (4) 0.36
  Hepatic failure 18 (5) 7 (5) 1 (4) 0.93
 Shock
  Septic shock 88 (26) 18 (14) 7 (25) 0.02
  Hemorrhagic shock 21 (6) 7 (5) 1 (4) 0.82
  Other shock 15 (4) 6 (5) 0 (0) 0.52
 Trauma 8 (2) 5 (4) 0 (0) 0.46
 Cardiac
  Cardiac surgery-bypass 39 (11) 18 (14) 3 (11) 0.80
  Cardiac surgery-no bypass 6 (2) 4 (3) 0 (0) 0.50
  Cardiac – non-surgical 27 (8) 16 (12) 6 (21) 0.04
 Post-operative
  Emergency surgery 14 (4) 7 (5) 0 (0) 0.45
  Elective surgery 14 (4) 10 (8) 0 (0) 0.14
  Post-op liver transplant 10 (3) 2 (2) 1 (4) 0.64
 Neurosurgical
  Traumatic brain injury 5 (2) 3 (2) 0 (0) 0.65
  Intracranial bleed/intracranial hypertension 9 (3) 3 (2) 0 (0) 0.68
 Neurologic
  Seizure 9 (3) 2 (2) 2 (7) 0.23
  Encephalopathy 29 (9) 8 (6) 2 (7) 0.66
  Meningitis 4 (1) 1 (1) 0 (0) 0.72
 Veno-occlusive disease 4 (1) 2 (2) 0 (0) 0.80
 New leukemia/hyperleukocytosis 14 (4) 2 (2) 2 (7) 0.23
 Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 5 (2) 1 (1) 0 (0) 0.68
 Other 25 (7) 6 (5) 4 (14) 0.16
Therapies Received, n (%)
 Medications
  Milrinone 55 (16) 26 (20) 4 (14) 0.62
  Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories 5 (2) 5 (4) 0 (0) 0.20
  Aspirin 9 (3) 4 (3) 0 (0) 0.66
 Devices
  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation 60 (18) 18 (14) 7 (25) 0.29
  Continuous renal replacement therapy 31 (9) 18 (14) 3 (11) 0.36
  Intermittent hemodialysis 3 (1) 3 (2) 0 (0) 0.54
  Molecular adsorbent circulating system 2 (0.6) 3 (2) 0 (0) 0.26
Median (IQR) dose (mL/kg) platelet transfusions received prior to enrollment 30 (12–77) 58 (22–108) 19 (11–29) 0.06

p-values calculated using Chi-squared for large samples and Fisher’s Exact for small samples