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. 2022 Oct 20;12:99. doi: 10.1186/s13613-022-01070-0

Table 1.

Patient characteristics including clinically relevant features used for prediction

Parameter Missing (%) Values Units
Number of prone events 3619
Number of patients 1142
Prone events per patient, median [Q1, Q3] 2 [1, 4]
Age, median [Q1,Q3] 0.0 66.0 [58.0,72.0] Years
Gender, female, n (%) 0.0 944 (26.1)
BMI, median [Q1,Q3] 0.0 27.2 [24.6,30.0]
Comorbidities
Chronic dialysis, n (%) 30.0 43 (1.7)
Chronic renal insufficiency, n (%) 30.0 256 (10.1)
Cirrhosis, n (%) 30.0 103 (4.1)
COPD, n (%) 30.0 349 (13.8)
Diabetes, n (%) 30.0 613 (24.2)
Neoplasm, n (%) 30.0 132 (5.2)
Hematologic malignancy, n (%) 30.0 193 (7.6)
Immune insufficiency, n (%) 30.0 356 (14.1)
Respiratory insufficiency, n (%) 30.0 196 (7.7)
Cardiovascular insufficiency, n (%) 30.0 131 (5.2)
Clinical measurements, average
etCO2 2 h, mean (SD) 14.6 41.3 (11.0) mmHg
paCO2-etCO2 2 h, mean (SD) 27.5 13.3 (10.9) mmHg
FiO2 2 h, mean (SD) 3.3 65.6 (17.6) %
Peak airway pressure 2 h, mean (SD) 10.3 27.2 (6.2) cmH2O
Delta pressure 2 h, mean (SD) 20.3 13.5 (5.4) cmH2O
PEEP 2 h, mean (SD) 8.1 12.2 (3.3) cmH2O
Respiratory system compliance 2 h, mean (SD) 10.2 43.6 (31.0) ml/cmH2O
Tidal volume per kg 2 h, mean (SD) 8.2 6.7 (1.5) ml/kg
Respiratory rate 2 h, mean (SD) 1.5 24.7 (5.5) /min
Minute volume 2 h, mean (SD) 8.3 11.0 (3.0) ml/min
PaO2/FiO2 ratio 2 h, mean (SD) 20.4 120.5 (45.4) mmHg
Ventilatory ratio 2 h, mean (SD) 12.6 2.3 (0.9)
Mechanical power 2 h, mean (SD) 12.5 32.9 (14.3) J/min
Mean arterial blood pressure 2 h, mean (SD) 3.2 78.7 (12.5) mmHg
Heart rate 2 h, mean (SD) 5.9 88.5 (19.6) /min
CRP 2 h, mean (SD) 21.0 199.2 (123.8) mg/l
Leukocytes 2 h, mean (SD) 6.5 11.5 (5.5) 109/l
Thrombocytes 2 h, mean (SD) 4.8 304.9 (135.1) 109/l
d-dimer 2 h, mean (SD) 57.7 3061.2 (2251.5) ng/ml
Lactate arterial 2 h, mean (SD) 44.0 1.3 (0.6) mmol/l
pO2 arterial 2 h, mean (SD) 19.5 69.7 (10.2) mmHg
pCO2 arterial 2 h, mean (SD) 6.8 53.9 (14.3) mmHg
pH arterial 2 h, mean (SD) 24.8 7.4 (0.1)
Creatinine 2 h, mean (SD) 6.0 115.8 (105.2) µmol/l
Clinical measurements, slopes
Last FiO2 2 h slope, median [Q1,Q3] 13.5 0.0 [− 5.0,2.5] %/h
PaO2/FiO2 ratio 8 h slope, median [Q1,Q3] 80.2 1.0 [− 1.7,3.7] mmHg/h
Ventilatory ratio 8 h slope, median [Q1,Q3] 47.6 − 0.0 [− 0.0,0.0] /h
Mechanical power 8 h slope, median [Q1,Q3] 32.0 0.0 [− 0.6,0.6] J/min/h
Outcomes
PaO2/FiO2 ratio 3 h last, median [Q1,Q3] 18.3 111.6 [86.8,141.7]
Ventilatory ratio 3 h last, median [Q1,Q3] 32.2 2.2 [1.7,2.9]
Mechanical power 3 h last, median [Q1,Q3] 23.5 32.0 [20.9,44.7] J/min
Respiratory system compliance 3 h last, median [q1, q3] 9.8 32.8 [24.4,48.5] ml/cmH2O
PaO2/FiO2 ratio difference, median [Q1, Q3] 27.3 14.9 [− 5.3,40.5]
Ventilatory ratio difference, median [Q1, Q3] 37.4 0.0 [− 0.3,0.4]
Mechanical power difference, median [Q1, Q3] 26.7 0.2 [− 9.8,9.2] J/min
Respiratory system compliance difference, median [Q1, Q3] 12.9 − 0.6 [− 5.8,3.6] ml/cmH2O

For clinical parameters, the mean of the past 2 h was aggregated per patient and slopes were calculated based on mean values in the hour before proning