Table 3.
Complications and treatments of severe-critically ill patients.
| Characteristics | Severe-critically ill patients (n = 84) |
| Complications | |
| Respiratory failure | 49 (58.3) |
| ARDS | 12 (14.3) |
| Secondary infection | 14 (16.7) |
| Acute renal injury | 5 (6.0) |
| Sepsis | 74 (88.1) |
| Septic shock | 5 (5.9) |
| Treatments | |
| Oxygen therapy | 84 (100) |
| Non-invasive mechanical ventilation | 23 (27.4) |
| Invasive mechanical ventilation | 12 (14.3) |
| ECMO | 3 (3.6) |
| Pulmonary transplant | 2 (2.4) |
| Renal replacement therapy | 3 (3.6) |
| Antibacterial agents | 70 (83.3) |
| Antifungal agents | 13 (15.5) |
| Systemic corticosteroids | 43 (51.2) |
| Intravenous immunoglobin | 22 (26.2) |
| APACHE-II | 15 (12.5–18) |
| SOFA | 4.5 (3.0–6.5) |