Clinical Study
Consecutive Daily Measurements of Luminal Concentrations of Lactate in the Rectum in Septic Shock Patients
Table 1
Characteristics of 22 septic shock patients. Medians (25th–75th percentiles) or numbers (percentage).
| | Nonsurvivors | Survivors | | | | | |
| Age (years) | 68 (51–75) | 65 (49–68) | | Male/female | 3/2 | 12/5 | | Focus of infection | | | | Pulmonary | 1 (20%) | 7 (41%) | | Abdominal | 1 (20%) | 3 (18%) | | Other or unknown | 3 (60%) | 3 (18%) | | Infectious agent | | | | Gram-negative | 1 (20%) | 2 (12%) | | Gram-positive | 3 (60%) | 10 (59%) | | Both | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | | Fungi, virus or unknown | 1 (20%) | 3 (18%) | | SAPS II | 64 (56–75) | 48 (39–70) | | SOFA score at inclusion | 12 (9–16) | 12 (9–14) | | Shock duration at | 11 (8–17) | 12 (9–18) | | inclusion (hours) | | | |
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-Whitney test Fisher’s exact test.
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