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Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics

From: Prognostic factors in patients with septic shock in digestive surgery who have undergone direct hemoperfusion with polymyxin B-immobilized fibers: a retrospective observational study

 

Survivors ( n= 23)

Non-survivors ( n= 6)

P values

Age (years)

67.0 (27–95)

74.5 (58–83)

0.269

Gender (male/female)

14/9

4/2

0.592

Site of infection (number of patients)

   

 Intra-abdominal infection

21

3

0.013

 Pneumonia

1

0

 

 unidentified source

1

1

 

 CRBSI

0

1

 

 Vibriovulnificus infection

0

1

 

Procedures for source control (+/−)

20/3

4/2

0.269

  1. Data are presented as medians (ranges).
  2. Abbreviations: CRBSI catheter-related bloodstream infection.