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