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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Nov 18;38(11):2324–2328. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2019.11.002

Table 3:

Patient Outcomes

Outcome Hyperoxia
(n=360)
Hypoxia
(n=144)
Control
(n=848)
Ambulatory Status at Discharge (n, %) Able to Ambulate without personal assistance 152 (49%) 59 (49%) 372 (53%)
Ambulates with personal assistance 93 (30%) 34 (28%) 197 (28%)
Unable to ambulate 66 (21%) 27 (23%) 138 (20%)
Stroke Interventions (n, %) tPA 51 (17%) 23 (20%) 136 (20%)
EVT 6 (2%) 3 (2%) 25 (3%)
IAtPA 7 (2%) 3 (3%) 30 (4%)
Total LOS in days (mean, SD) 9.6 (13.0) 7.8 (9.0) 8.6 (32.6)
In-hospital Respiratory Complications (n, %) Requiring NIPPV 6 (2%) 5 (4%) 9 (1%)
Requiring MVa 89 (25%) 39 (27%) 75 (9%)
Pulmonary Edema 6 (2%) 3 (2%) 10 (1%)
Treatment for Hospital Acquired Pneumonia 10 (5%) 8 (10%) 47 (9%)
Any documentation of pneumonia in discharge summarya 18 (5%) 17 (12%) 24 (3%)
Any Respiratory Complicationa 111 (31%) 56 (39%) 136 (16%)
Favorable discharge mRS (mRS 0-2) (n,%) 85 (34%) 31 (33%) 189 (34%)
a

Chi-squared p<0.05

b

ANOVA p<0.05

Tukey analysis p<0.05 compared to control (+), to hypoxia (#)