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Table 2 Admission characteristics of survivors and non survivors in paediatric intensive care patients

From: A comparison between raw and predicted mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa

Variable

Total group

Survived

Died

p value

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

97.87 (25.07)

100.77 (23.56)

90.71 (27.37)

< 0.001

FiO2

0.71 (0.26)

0.67 (0.26)

0.80 (0.26)

< 0.001

PaO2 (mmHg)

111.75 (60.43)

115.55 (60.68)

102.19 (58.96)

0.051

Base Excess (mmol/L)

− 5.48 (14.86)

− 4.16 (9.9)

− 8.94 (22.98)

0.006

  1. All values expressed as mean and standard deviation