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Table 1 Patient characteristics of cohorts meeting ARDS criteria

From: Performance of acute respiratory distress syndrome definitions in a high acuity paediatric intensive care unit

 

PALICC

Berlin/AECC

p  value

N

135

35

 

Male gender, %

59.3

60

0.937

Age, median in days (IQR)

380 (61;1917)

770 (137;2310)

0.179

PRISM-II, median (IQR)

14 (10;19)

14 (12;23)

0.378

PRISM-III, median (IQR)

4 (1;8)

5 (1;8)

0.811

PIM, median (IQR)

− 2.505 (− 3.249;− 1.940)

− 2.380 (− 2.660;− 1.530)

0.064

PIM-II, median (IQR)

− 3.537 (− 4.382;− 2.487)

− 2.879 (− 4.210;− 1.587)

0.052

Mortality, %

14.1

25.7

0.098

Receiving HFOV at onset, n (%)

18 (13.3)

4 (11.4)

0.765

Timing

 Between chest radiographs and meeting criteria, median in minutes (IQR)

47 (28.5;143)

39.5 (20.5;111.75)

0.366

Intubation cause

 Pneumonia, n (%)

78 (58)

18 (51)

0.409

 Sepsis, n (%)

14 (10)

6 (17)

 Post resuscitation, n (%)

11 (8)

5 (14)

 Post cardiac surgery, n (%)

9 (7)

0 (0)

 High energetic trauma, n (%)

4 (3)

0 (0)

 Status epilepticus, n (%)

2 (1)

1 (3)

 Liver failure/transplantation, n (%)

1 (< 1)

1 (3)

 Others, n (%)

16 (12)

4 (11)

  1. No significant differences were found between the cohort meeting PALICC criteria and the cohort meeting Berlin/AECC criteria