Patients Admitted to Three Spanish Intensive Care Units for Poisoning: Type of Poisoning, Mortality, and Functioning of Prognostic Scores Commonly Used

Table 3

Relationship between ingestion of caustics and other variables.

	Caustics	Noncaustics
	)	()
Age			<0.001
Attempted suicide	100%	75.9%	0.066
GCS at admission			0.001
Mechanical ventilation at admission	90.9%	67.6%	0.109
APACHE-II			0.112
APACHE-III			0.105
SAPS-3			0.676
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3 (general equation)			0.676
Predicted mortality by SAPS-3 (Southern Europe equation)			0.676
Predicted mortality by APACHE-II			<0.001
Predicted mortality by APACHE-III			0.003
ICU mortality	54.5%	0.9%	<0.001
Hospital mortality	54.5%	1.9%	<0.001

Quantitative variables are expressed as mean ± standard deviation and median with interquartile range in brackets.