Table 1 Characteristics of study patients from ETT collection.

From: Endotracheal tube biofilm in critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic : description of an underestimated microbiological compartment

 

Total (n = 61)

Age

69 (30–88)

Male gender

33 (54)

Medical admission

58 (97)

ICU admission for ARDS

45 (74)

COVID-19

40 (67)

SAPS II

43 (13–92)

SOFA

6 (2–19)

Chronic diseases

High blood pressure

31 (51)

Diabetes

18 (30)

Dyslipidemia

18 (30)

Chronic respiratory disease

6 (10)

COPD

3 (5)

Ischemic cardiomyopathy

7 (11)

Cirrhosis

4 (7)

Chronic kidney disease

5 (8)

Immunosuppression

8 (13)

Length of hospital stay before ICU admission

2 (0–83)

BMI

29 (17–54)

Prior antimicrobial treatment

16 (26)

VAP

32 (52)

CPIS

7 (4–10)

ICU stay

Total duration of MV

10 (3–62)

Reintubation

15 (25)

Length of ICU stay

15 (3–73)

ICU mortality

20 (33)

  1. All results are displayed as number (%) for categorical variables and as median (IQR) for quantitative variables.
  2. ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, BMI body mass index, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CPIS clinical pulmonary infection score, MV mechanical ventilation, ns not significant, SAPS simplified acute physiology score, SOFA sepsis-related organ failure assessment, VAP ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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