Emergency Laparotomy in the Critically Ill: Futility at the Bedside

Table 1

Patient demographics and preoperative physiology versus mortality.

	All emergent laparotomies			Bedside laparotomies
	Deaths ()	Survivors ()	value	Deaths ()	Survivors ()	value
Age, years (SD)	64.35 (14.2)	61.2 (15.6)	0.2069	65.1 (14.75)	56.4 (15.65)	0.1117
Lactate, mmol/L (SD)	8.54 (6.463)	2.716 (3.08)	0.0001	10.66 (6.897)	2.35 (1.074)	0.0005
Vasopressor, (%)	78 (97.5%)	40 (62.5%)	0.0001	34 (97.14%)	8 (80%)	0.1195
Acute renal failure	58 (72.5%)	33 (51.6%)	0.0146	28 (80%)	6 (60%)	0.2279
Leukocytosis	57 (71.25%)	34 (53.1%)	0.0365	28 (80%)	6 (60%)	0.2279
Low hemoglobin	57 (71.25%)	29 (45.3%)	0.0021	26 (74.28%)	5 (50%)	0.2439