Potentially Preventable Deaths by Intensive Care Medicine in Mongolian Hospitals

Table 2

Admission reasons and interventions set in study patients dying in the ICU.

N	450
Reasons for ICU admission (/%)
Coma	222 (49.4)
Shock	123 (27.4)
Respiratory failure	42 (9.4)
Postoperative status	35 (7.8)
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome	18 (4)
Cardiac arrest	9 (2)
Oxygen administration (/%)	151 (33.6)
Mechanical ventilation (/%)	299 (66.4)
Length of mechanical ventilation (days)	1 (1–3)
Vasopressor therapy (/%)	195 (43.3)
Type of vasopressor administered (/%)
Epinephrine	103 (22.9)
Dopamine	70 (15.6)
Norepinephrine	5 (1.1)
Other	16 (3.6)
Length of ICU stay (days)	1 (1–3)

ICU, intensive care unit.
Data are given as median values with interquartile range, if not otherwise indicated.