Figure 1

Simulation of the additional mortality prediction from an out of range plasma glutamine concentration at ICU admittance. The solid line is the APACHE II predicted mortality rate if plasma glutamine concentration is in the range 400-930 μmol/l; the dotted line represents the predicted mortality rate when admittance plasma glutamine concentration is outside that range. The simulation suggests a 50 % mortality risk at APACHE 20 for admittance plasma glutamine concentrations out of range in contrast to a 50 % mortality risk at APACHE 30 for the range 400-930 μmol/h; Reproduced from [5] with permission.