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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Measuring energy expenditure in the intensive care unit: a comparison of indirect calorimetry by E-sCOVX and Quark RMR with Deltatrac II in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients

Characteristic

Na

Sex (M/F)

17/5

Age

58.6 ± 15.5

BMI

27.6 ± 7.7

Diagnosis

 

 Septic shock

6

 Severe sepsis

2

 Respiratory failure

4

 Pneumonia

1

 Cardiogenic shock

1

 Cardiac arrest

2

 Other

6

Ventilation mode during measurement

 

 CPAP-ASB

40

 BIPAP-ASB

7

 MMV

1

SAPS IIb

68.4 ± 13.8

SOFA (day of measurement)

10.8 ± 4.3

  1. BIPAP-ASB biphasic positive airway pressure-assisted spontaneous breathing, BMI body mass index, CPAP-ASB continuous positive airway pressure-assisted spontaneous breathing, MMV mandatory minute volume ventilation, SAPS Simplified Acute Physiology Score, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
  2. a Values indicated with ± are means ± standard deviation
  3. b N = 19
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