Mortality Related Risk Factors in High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism in the ICU

Table 5

Statistically significant factors for mortality in group 1 patients ().

	Survivors	Nonsurvivors	value
	()	()
Male gender	9 (32.1)	9 (69.2)	0.043
APACHE II score	18.0 (16.0–20.0)	20.0 (19.0–30.5)	0.002
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation	3 (10.7)	13 (100.0)	<0.001
Invasive mechanical ventilation	4 (14.3)	11 (84.6)	<0.001
Need for vasopressor therapy	15 (53.6)	13 (100.0)	0.003
Hospital length of stay (days)	15.0 (10.0–24.8)	5.0 (4.5–8.0)	<0.001

All values are expressed as numbers (percentages) or median (interquartile range).
APACHE: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation.