Patient characteristics and Comparison
Sixty-five adult patients with sepsis were admitted, including 41 males
and 24 females, and 5 cases died in the ICU. According to the length of
ICU stay more or fewer than 14 days, 60 patients of survival were
divided into two groups. There were no significantly difference in
demographic data of two groups (Table 1), except that the median age of
patients whose ICU stay more than 14 days was older than that of group
of ICU stay fewer than 14 days (63.33±10.41 vs 72.63±7.45, P =0.015),
which was in parallel with SOFA score [5.17 (3.00-6.00) vs 8.00
(5.00-11.00), P =0.01] and APACHE II score [11.79 (7.00-14.00) vs
16.62 (13.00-21.00), P =0.01].
Table 1 Baseline levels of sepsis patients with different
length of stay in ICU