Clinical Study

Sequential Oxygenation Index and Organ Dysfunction Assessment within the First 3 Days of Mechanical Ventilation Predict the Outcome of Adult Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Failure

Table 3

Characteristics of survivors and nonsurvivors: bivariate analysis#.

CharacteristicsHospital mortality 
Survivor 
values

Age (years)68.37 (17.55)74.45 (14.22)0.1
Gender ( (%))
 Male 22 (57.9)36 (58.1)0.99
 Female 16 (42.1)26 (41.9)
SOFA* score on admission5.63 (3.07)4.15 (2.3)0.007
APACHE* II score27.05 (7.44)25.06 (6.21)0.15
Source ( (%))
 Emergency department18 (47)37 (60)
 Hospital ward17 (45)21 (34)0.48
 Other ICU* or other hospitals3 (8)4 (6)
Previous MICU* admission ( (%))13 (42)17 (27.4)0.47
Comorbidities ( (%))
 Congestive heart failure5 (13.2)5 (8.1)0.41
 Hypertension23 (60.5)39 (62.9)0.81
 Chronic obstructive 7 (18.4)15 (24.2)0.5
 pulmonary disease
 Pulmonary tuberculosis2 (5.3)7 (11.3)0.31
 CRF* with tracheostomy3 (7.9)8 (12.9)0.44
 Liver cirrhosis6 (15.8)4 (6.5)0.13
 Chronic kidney disease7 (18.4)12 (19.4)0.91
 Diabetes mellitus12 (31.6)23 (37.1)0.57
 Cerebrovascular accident9 (23.7)21 (33.9)0.28
 Hepatitis B4 (10.5)2 (3.2)0.14
 Hepatitis C1 (2.6)3 (4.8)0.59
 Cancer history5 (13.2)5 (8.1)0.41

 *APACHE: Acute Physiological Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation, CRF: chronic respiratory failure, ICU: intensive care unit, MICU: medical intensive care unit, SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.
#Continuous variables were analyzed by Student’s t-test or Mann-Whitney U test, and categorical data by chi-square test.
Variables are expressed as mean (standard deviation) and categorical data are expressed as number (percentage).