Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients in the hypothermia and normothermia groups
Hypothermia | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conventional | BR | CC | AS | CG | P value | |
Gender (male) | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0.546 |
Age (years) | 69.4 ± 16.3 | 64.6 ± 7.8 | 63.4 ± 17.6 | 58.8 ± 14.7 | 60.4 ± 14.6 | 0.706 |
APACHE II | 26.8 ± 4.8 | 29.2 ± 5.2 | 22.4 ± 9.5 | 22.0 ± 11.8 | 26.2 ± 9.3 | 0.268 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 26.3 ± 3.4 | 25.2 ± 1.5 | 26.0 ± 4.2 | 26.4 ± 3.8 | 24.4 ± 3.2 | 0.137 |
Diagnosis | ||||||
OHA | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |
IHA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Cardiac origin | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
High ICP | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
Alive at discharge from ICU | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0.034 |
Normothermia | ||||||
Gender (male) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0.546 |
Age (years) | 46.4 ± 7.3 | 37.8 ± 14.7 | 49.0 ± 15.4 | 57.6 ± 16.2 | 48.8 ± 12.8 | 0.05 |
APACHE II | 20.6 ± 7.9 | 15.6 ± 8.6 | 21.2 ± 9.6 | 24.2 ± 4.1 | 24.0 ± 7.3 | 0.770 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 25.5 ± 0.5 | 25.9 ± 4.7 | 25.3 ± 2.8 | 25.7 ± 1.7 | 24.9 ± 1.8 | 0.868 |
Diagnosis | ||||||
SAH | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
TBI | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Post-anoxic | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Intracerebral hemorrhage | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Cause of fever | ||||||
Pneumonia | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |
Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
CVC related bacteriemia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
SIRS | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
Alive at discharge from ICU | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0.003 |