Impaired cerebrovascular autoregulation in patients with severe sepsis and sepsis-associated delirium

Table 1 Demographic characteristics

Patient number	Septic focus	Hospital stay	APACHE II score	Mx day1	Mx day 2	Mx day 3	Mx day 4	SAD day 4
1	soft tissue	1	44	0.44	0.42	0.01	0.33	yes
2	abdominal	18	38	0.58	0.39	0.47	0.04	yes
3	abdominal	2	35	0.17	0.13	0.21	*	yes
4	urogenital	2	35	0.96	0.97	^§	^§	^§
5	abdominal	4	30	0.05	0.25	0.14	0.04	no
6	abdominal	1	37	0.25	0.23	0.17	0.28	yes
7	abdominal	3	35	0.30	0.31	0.12	*	no
8	abdominal	1	24	0.81	*	0.48	*	yes
9	abdominal	1	24	0.26	0.23	0.20	-0.36	no
10	abdominal	38	38	0.25	0.13	0.07	0.07	no
11	abdominal	1	34	0.22	0.42	0.37	*	no
12	abdominal	9	29	0.23	0.13	0.11	0.01	yes
13	abdominal	7	33	0.19	0.25	0.21	0.08	yes
14	abdominal	1	27	0.69	0.39	0.39	0.80	no
15	soft tissue	3	34	0.11	0.19	0.51	0.01	yes
16	abdominal	19	32	0.43	0.49	0.59	0.39	yes
17	abdominal	2	36	0.46	0.27	0.29	0.51	yes
18	abdominal	13	33	0.31	0.20	0.36	0.40	yes
19	abdominal	1	35	0.17	0.43	0.15	0.15	yes
20	soft tissue	2	32	0.64	0.45	-0.53	0.01	yes
21	abdominal	8	29	0.39	0.42	0.88	0.84	yes
22	abdominal	18	31	0.48	0.61	0.30	0.69	yes
23	abdominal	13	28	0.89	0.51	0.28	*	yes
24	abdominal	12	20	0.86	0.84	-0.15	0.05	yes
25	urogenital	4	21	0.07	0.07	0.32	0.04	no
26	abdominal	1	29	0.44	0.46	0.39	0.32	yes
27	abdominal	1	23	0.85	0.73	0.73	0.64	yes
28	abdominal	12	38	0.42	0.62	0.12	0.36	yes
29	abdominal	2	35	0.66	0.15	0.07	0.24	yes
30	abdominal	8	31	0.18	0.32	0.20	0.35	yes

Hospital stay, day of hospital stay at the day of septic onset (days); APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score at the first day; Mx, index of cerebrovascular autoregulation; SAD, sepsis-associated delirium measured with confusion-assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU). ^§patient died; *TCD measurement not possible.

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