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Table 1 Patient characteristics at admission to intensive care unit

From: Who would benefit from open abdomen in severe acute pancreatitis?—a matched case-control study

 

Open abdomen (n = 47)

Matched Controls (n = 47)

P

Age, median (range), years

49 (27–82)

50 (18–78)

0.456

BMI, mean ± SD, kg/m2

30.4 ± 4.9

30.4 ± 4.9

0.991

Male sex

42 (89)

41 (87)

1.000

Alcoholic etiology *

40 (85)

34 (72)

0.207

Tertiary referral

18 (38)

16 (34)

0.830

ASA ≥ III

32 (68)

25 (53)

0.205

SOFA < 72 h

13 (11–14)

12 (10–15)

0.876

APACHE II < 24 h

23 (17–29)

18 (15–26)

0.056

Time interval between hospital and ICU admission, hours

23 (8–33)

28 (12–40)

0.318

  1. Presented values are absolute number of patients (number in brackets is percentage) unless stated otherwise
  2. *Open abdomen: biliary (2), hypertriglyceridemia (2), other/idiopathic (2), postoperative (1). Matched controls: biliary (7), other/idiopathic (4), hypertriglyceridemia (1), post-ERCP (1)
  3. Median (interquartile range)
  4. APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II Scoring System; ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification System; BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; ICU, intensive care unit; OR, odds ratio; SD, standard deviation; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score