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	𝑃
	(𝑛=5)	(𝑛=17)
Age (years)	68 (51–75)	65 (49–68)	0.43^a
Male/female	3/2	12/5	1.00^b
Focus of infection
Pulmonary	1 (20%)	7 (41%)	0.61^b
Abdominal	1 (20%)	3 (18%)	1.00^b
Other or unknown	3 (60%)	3 (18%)	0.10^b
Infectious agent
Gram-negative	1 (20%)	2 (12%)	1.00^b
Gram-positive	3 (60%)	10 (59%)	1.00^b
Both	0 (0%)	1 (7%)	1.00^b
Fungi, virus or unknown	1 (20%)	3 (18%)	1.00^b
SAPS II	64 (56–75)	48 (39–70)	0.15^a
SOFA score at inclusion	12 (9–16)	12 (9–14)	0.78^a
Shock duration at	11 (8–17)	12 (9–18)	0.61^a
inclusion (hours)

^aMann-Whitney test
bFisher’s exact test.