Skip to main content

Table 3 Risk factors for colonization of open abdomen with new pathogens*

From: Microbial colonization of open abdomen in critically ill surgical patients

 

Hazard ratio

95 % CI

p-value

Diagnosis

  

0.005

  Aortic pathology

reference

  

  SAP£

2.15

0.92–5.04

0.077

  Peritonitis

5.69

2.18–14.84

<0.001

  Other diagnosis

2.79

1.14–6.84

0.025

Primary colonization

0.068

0.023–0.20

<0.001

  1. *All patients with at least one follow-up culture during open abdomen were included (n = 91). Preoperative abdominal compartment syndrome, primary colonization and diagnosis were included in backward stepwise Cox regression analysis
  2. £SAP = severe acute pancreatitis
Back to article page

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

ISSN: 1749-7922