Air Medical Transportation for Severe Acute Pancreatitis Patients over an Extra Long Distance: Is It Safe Enough?

Table 3

Baseline characteristics and clinical features of the severe acute pancreatitis patients before transferred to our center.

Variables	All AP patients
Age (years)	42 (14)
Gender (male/female)	14/6
BMI	26.8 (4.11)
APACHE II score	17.1 (6.22)
SOFA score	6.2 (1.98)
CT severity index	8.5 (1.90)
Disease course when transfered (days)	27.6 (16.5)
Etiology of acute pancreatitis, number (%)
Gallstone	8 (40)
Hypertriglyceridemia	10 (50)
Alcohol	1 (5)
Trauma	1 (5)
Other	0 (0)
Severity of AP, number (%)
Mild	0 (0)
Moderately severe	0 (0)
Severe	20 (100)
Systemic complication, number (%)
ARDS	16 (80)
AKI	18 (90)
Shock	12 (60)
Sepsis	20 (100)
Local complication, number (%)
IPN	20 (100)
Intra-abdominal hemorrhage	6 (30)
Portal thrombosis	2 (10)
Gastrointestinal fistula	3 (15)
Treatment, number (%)
Mechanical ventilation	16 (80)
CRRT	18 (90)
Vasoactive drugs	14 (70)
Sedative treatment	14 (70)
Analgesics	12 (60)
Invasive drainage	13 (65)
Operation	8 (40)

BMI—body mass index, APACHE II—acute physiology and chronic health enquiry II, SOFA—sequential organ failure assessment, CT—computed tomography, ARDS—acute respiratory distress syndrome, AKI—acute kidney injury, IPN—infected pancreatic necrosis, CRRT—continuous renal replacement therapy. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables and absolute numbers and percentages for categorical variables.