Research Article
ROUNDS Studies: Relation of OUtcomes with Nutrition Despite Severity—Round One: Ultrasound Muscle Measurements in Critically Ill Adult Patients
Table 3
Length of stay, therapies, and qualitative variables.
| | Alive () | Nonsurvivors () | Total () |
| | LOS (days), median (interquartile range) | 4 (3–7) | 4 (3–8) | 4 (3–7) | | IMV, n (%) | 13 (27.7) | 10 (83.3) | 23 (39.0) | | Mobility, n (%) | 47 (100) | 8 (66.7) | 55 (93.2) | | Sedation, n (%) | 15 (31.9) | 10 (83.3) | 25 (42.4) | | Steroids, n (%) | 11 (23.4) | 1 (8.3) | 12 (20.3) | | Norepinephrine, n (%) | 10 (21.3) | 6 (50.0) | 16 (27.1) | | Vasopressin, n (%) | 16 (34.0) | 8 (66.7) | 24 (40.7) | | Insulin, n (%) | 18 (38.3) | 9 (75.0) | 27 (45.8) | | Hemodialysis, n (%) | 6 (12.8) | 0 (0) | 6 (10.2) | | High nutritional risk, n (%) | 12 (25.5) | 7 (58.3) | 19 (32.2) |
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LOS: length of stay; IMV: invasive mechanical ventilation; high nutritional risk: NUTRIC ≥ 5. indicates difference between groups. |
