Early non-invasive cardiac output monitoring in hemodynamically unstable intensive care patients: A multi-center randomized controlled trial

Table 1 Demographics, time intervals relevant to intensive care and study admission, and baseline hemodynamics

	MICO N = 199	Control N = 187	P- value
Age; years	59 (18)	64 (16)	0.05
Gender; n; female/male	67/132	62/125	1.00
Height; cm	171 (9)	170 (10)	0.25
Weight; kg	81 (19)	78 (18)	0.06
SAPS II	48 (18)	48 (15)	0.86
Predicted risk of death; %	43 (29)	43 (26)	0.85
Patient with > 50% risk; n	87	72	0.30
Infection, confirmed; %	27	23	0.29
Infection, suspected or confirmed; %	51	49	0.69
Surgical admission; %	32	27	0.37
Hospital admission to ICU admission;	13	13	0.49
hours	(2 to 54)	(1 to 93)
ICU admission to arterial line insertion; minutes	20 (6 to 45)	16 (5 to 42)	0.13
Arterial line insertion to baseline;	64	45	0.12
minutes	(23-144)	(17-116)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	103 (26)	107 (27)	0.16
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	53 (15)	53 (12)	0.95
Heart rate (beats/min)	97 (24)	95(25)	0.40
APACHE III diagnostic groups (%)			0.56
Medical admission
Cardiovascular	17.1	23.0	0.16
Respiratory	14.1	18.2	0.33
Gastrointestinal	10.1	8.6	0.73
Sepsis	14.6	11.2	0.37
Other medical	12.6	11.8	0.88
Surgical admission
Cardiovascular	5.5	7.5	0.54
Gastrointestinal	13.1	8.6	0.19
Trauma	4.5	4.8	1.00
Other surgical	8.5	6.4	0.45

Values are mean (SD), median (25^{th to} 75^th percentile), ratio, or percentage, as indicated.
APACHE, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; MICO, minimally invasive cardiac output; SAPS II, simplified acute physiology score II.

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