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 7

Characteristics of patients with different weaning outcomes: bivariate analysis#.

CharacteristicsWeaning success 
Weaning failure 
value

Age (years)72.59 (15.04)79.81 (10.14)0.08
Gender ( (%))
 Male
 Female
27 (58.7)
19 (41.3%)
9 (56.3)
7 (43.8)
0.86
SOFA* score on admission4.39 (2.30)3.44 (2.22)0.16
APACHE* II score24.7 (6.62)26.13 (6.43)0.43
Source ( (%))
 Emergency department27 (58.7)10 (62.5)
 Hospital ward17 (37.0)4 (25)0.42
 Other ICU* or other hospitals2 (4.3)2 (12.5)
Previous MICU admission ( (%))10 (21.7)7 (43.8)0.09
Comorbidities ( (%))
 Congestive heart failure5 (10.9)0 (0)0.17
 Hypertension28 (60.9)11 (68.8)0.57
 Chronic obstructive 9 (19.6)6 (37.5)0.15
 pulmonary disease
 Pulmonary tuberculosis5 (10.9)2 (12.5)0.86
 CRF* with tracheostomy4 (8.7)4 (25)0.09
 Liver cirrhosis4 (8.7)0 (0)0.22
 Chronic kidney disease11 (23.9)1 (6.3)0.12
 Diabetes mellitus15 (32.6)8 (50)0.22
 Cerebrovascular accident9 (19.5)12 (75)<0.001
 Hepatitis B2 (4.3)0 (0)0.4
 Hepatitis C3 (6.5)0 (0)0.3
 Cancer history10 (21.7)0 (0)0.04

 *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).