Table 1 Clinical, biological and infection data of patients
From: Adrenal function testing in patients with septic shock
Sex | Â |
   Female | 59 (57.8) |
   Male | 43 (42.2) |
Age (years) | 74 (62–82) |
Admission diagnoses | Â |
   Postoperative | 47 (46.1) |
   Medical | 50 (49) |
   Trauma | 5 (4.9) |
Acute respiratory distress syndrome | 52 (51) |
Length of intensive care unit stay (days) | 18 (12–27.3) |
Length of hospital stay (days) | 33 (19–85.3) |
Days for corticotropin testa | 2 (1–4) |
Total serum protein (g/dl)b | 4.7 (4.1–5.2) |
Serum albumin (g/dl)b | 2 (1.7–2.4) |
White blood cells (cells/μl) | 11,550 (8,275–16,500) |
C-reactive protein (mg/dl) | 16.3 (10.5–25) |
Baseline cortisol levels (μg/dl) | 17.2 (10.6–23.8) |
Cortisol 60 (μg/dl) | 25.4 (18.6–39.2) |
Cortisol 120 (μg/dl) | 35.5 (24.5–49.9) |
Δmax1 (μg/dl) | 8.2 (3.5–17.3) |
Δmax249 (μg/dl) | 16.6 (10–26) |
Mean daily dose of norepinephrinec (μg/kg/minute) | 0.13 (0.04–0.54) |
Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score (corticotropin test day) | 9 (7.8–11) |
Maximum Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score | 10 (9–13) |
First-day Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score | 7 (4–10) |
Acute Physiologic and Chronic Heath Evaluation II score | 20 (17–23) |
Simplified Acute Physiology II score | 43.5 (36–52.3) |
28-day mortality rate | 32 (31.4) |
Intensive care unit mortality rate | 36 (35.3) |
Hospital mortality rate | 46 (45.1) |
Site of infection | Â |
   ◦Intra-abdominal | 28 (27.5) |
   ◦Soft tissue abscess/cellulitis | 3 (2.9) |
   ◦Lung | 58 (56.9) |
   ◦Central nervous system | 1 (1) |
   ◦Urinary tract | 10 (9.8) |
   ◦Endovascular infection | 2 (2) |
Microorganismsd | Â |
   ◦Gram-negative bacillus | 72 (61.6) |
   ◦Gram-positive coccus | 39 (33.3) |
   ◦Fungus | 6 (5.1) |
Bacteremia | 22 (21.6) |
Type of infection | Â |
   ◦Community | 51 (50) |
   ◦Nosocomial | 51 (50) |