Table 1 Patients' demographical and clinical characteristics (n = 1257)
Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
Age (years) | 56.0 ± 16.7 (18–93) |
Male sex | 660 (52.5%) |
SOFA (points) | 3 (2–7, 1–19) |
APACHE II (points) | 12 (8–18, 0–48) |
APACHE III-J® (points) | 44 (27–71, 3–199) |
SAPS II (points) | 29 (18–47, 0–121) |
Primary reason for ICU admission | |
Scheduled surgical patients | 715 (56.9%) |
Craniotomy | 281 (22.3%) |
Gastrointestinal surgery | 146 (11.6%) |
Head and neck surgery | 116 (9.2%) |
Lung resection | 101 (8.0%) |
Genitourinary surgery | 41 (3.3%) |
Other | 30 (2.4%) |
Emergency surgical patients | 138 (11.0%) |
Complications of previous GI surgery | 72 (5.7%) |
GI perforation/rupture | 12 (1.0%) |
GI obstruction | 12 (1.0%) |
Intracranial haemorrhage | 8 (0.6%) |
Cholangitis/cholecystectomy | 7 (0.6%) |
Other | 27 (2.1%) |
Medical patients | 404 (32.1%) |
Sepsis | 221 (17.6%) |
Pulmonary | 183 |
Urinary | 19 |
Other/unknown | 19 |
Respiratory failure (excluding sepsis) | 77 (6.1%) |
Cancer | 37 |
Pulmonary embolism | 28 |
Other | 12 |
Cardiopulmonary arrest | 19 (1.5%) |
Metabolic disturbances | 15 (1.2%) |
Cardiac arrhythmias (excluding coronary disease) | 12 (1.0%) |
Stroke | 12 (1.0%) |
Status epilepticus | 12 (1.0%) |
GI bleeding | 10 (0.8%) |
Other | 26 (2.1%) |