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. 2022 Aug;37(8):1101–1111. doi: 10.1177/08850666221086521

Table 1.

IPVD Therapy Versus non-IPVD Therapy COVID-19 ICU Patients.

IPVD (n = 59) No IPVD (n = 249) p-value
Age (years) 60 (54-66) 60 (47-71) 0.753
Gender (n (%))
Male 37 (62.7%) 164 (65.9%) 0.648
Female 22 (37.3%) 85 (34.1%)
BMI (kg/m2) 31.1 (27.1-35.9) 30.5 (26-34.8) 0.274
Ethnicity (n (%))
White 41 (69.5%) 190 (76.3%) 0.609
Asian 12 (20.3%) 38 (15.3%)
Black 4 (6.8%) 11 (4.4%)
Mixed 2 (3.4%) 6 (2.4%)
Unknown - 4 (1.6%)
Comorbidities (n (%))
T1DM 0 (0%) 7 (2.8%) 0.354
T2DM 17 (28.8%) 64 (25.7%) 0.626
COPD 3 (5.1%) 15 (6.0%) 1.000
Hypertension 28 (47.5%) 101 (40.6%) 0.334
Ischaemic heart disease 3 (5.1%) 34 (13.7%) 0.069
CKD 5 (8.5%) 17 (6.8%) 0.585
Illness severity scores
APACHE-II 17 (12-23) 13 (10-20) 0.028*
Admission oxygenation indices
FiO2 0.7 (0.55-0.8) 0.6 (0.5-0.7) 0.001*
PaO2 (kPa) 9.41 (8.55-11.10) 9.96 (8.50-9.96) 0.144
PF ratio (kPa) 14.37 (11.64-18.5) 16.37 (13.70-21.44) 0.002*
Admission bloods
Lactate (mmol/L) 1.2 (1.0-1.6) 1.0 (0.8-1.4) 0.013*
WCC (109/L) 8.2 (6.0-11.0) 8.5 (6.0-12.0) 0.379
Neutrophils (109/L) 7.2 (5.2-9.43) 7.6 (5.1-10.4) 0.540
Lymphocytes (109/L) 0.6 (0.5-0.8) 0.8 (0.5-1.1) 0.004*
Ferritin (μg/L) 774 (534-1237) 683 (376-1281) 0.547
Troponin (ng/L) 15 (8-43) 13 (7-44) 0.698
LDH (U/L) 1022 (829-1400) 874 (687-1211) 0.005*
D-Dimer (μg/L) 583 (283-1141) 553 (283-1176) 0.888
Creatinine Kinase (U/L) 148 (54-381) 131 (68-342) 0.997
Treatments (n (%))
Transfer for ECMO 1 (1.7%) 4 (1.6%) 1.000
Renal replacement therapy 15 (25.4%) 34 (13.7%) 0.026*
Survival (n (%))
ICU survival 33 (55.9%) 204 (81.9%) <0.001*
Hospital survival 31 (52.5%) 199 (79.9%) <0.001*