Do Aspirin and Other Antiplatelet Drugs Reduce the Mortality in Critically Ill Patients?

Table 1

Age, gender, APACHE II score, and mortality in a subgroup of patients with and without an exclusive prehospital aspirin medication. The data were taken from Winning et al. [33].

	Control	ASA	Significance
Number	461	129
Age (years)	52.2 ± 20.4	69.1 ± 9.3	𝑃<0.00001
Male/female (%)	56.8/43.2	57.4/42.6	n.s.
APACHE II	19.4 ± 8.5	26.1 ± 9.3	𝑃<0.00001
Mortality (%)*	38.4	38.8	n.s.

Data are given as mean ± standard deviation (sd), total numbers or %. Significances were calculated either by t-test for unpaired samples or by 2 × 2 table analysis. n.s. = not significant. * ICU mortality.