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