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Table 3 Patient outcomes according to the presence of ischemic upper gastrointestinal tract lesions

From: Ischemic injury of the upper gastrointestinal tract after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective, multicenter study

 

No lesions

N = 93

Moderate lesions

N = 66

Severe lesions

N = 55

p*

Post-resuscitation shock, N (%)

61 (65.6)

39 (59)

38 (69)

0.50

Day 10 Vasopressors free days, med (IQR), missing: N = 16

5 [2–7]

5 [2–8]

4 [2–7]

0.78

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage, N (%), missing: N = 1

5 (5.4)

0 (0)

5 (9.1)

0.03

ICU-mortality, N (%), missing: N = 1

46 (50)

33 (50)

39 (71)

0.02

Hospital mortality, N (%)

50 (54)

35 (53)

39 (71)

0.08

CPC 1 or 2 at hospital discharge, N (%), missing: N = 1

38 (41)

29 (44)

15 (27)

0.14

  1. CPC: Cerebral Performance Category
  2. *P value was obtained by comparison of variables using chi-2 or Fisher exact test for qualitative variables and Kruskal–Wallis test for quantitative variables, as appropriate