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Table 1 Demographic data of inpatients who underwent emergent endotracheal intubation

From: Emergency tracheal intubation during off-hours is not associated with increased mortality in hospitalized patients: a retrospective cohort study

Characteristics

Daytime (N = 164)

Off-hours (N = 394)

P

Male Gendera

115 (70.1%)

275 (69.8%)

0.939

Age (median, years)b

67 (22–96)

64 (20–96)

0.037

BMI (kg/m2)b

23.08 ± 3.38

21.97 ± 3.25

0.000

Admitting diagnosisa

 Heart disease

34 (20.7%)

64 (16.2%)

0.204

 CAD

25 (15.2%)

54 (13.7%)

0.635

 AMI

13 (7.9%)

33 (8.4%)

0.861

 Neurological diseases

48 (29.3%)

96 (24.4%)

0.228

 cerebral hemorrhage

5 (3.0%)

23 (5.8%)

0.169

 cerebral infarction

17 (10.4%)

24 (6.1%)

0.078

 End stage Hematopathy

16 (9.8%)

59 (15.0%)

0.100

 Respiratory diseases

17 (10.4%)

43 (10.9%)

0.849

 COPD

4 (2.4%)

17 (4.3%)

0.289

 pneumonia

6 (3.7%)

13 (3.3%)

0.831

 Gastrointestinal diseases

27 (16.5%)

67 (17.0%)

0.876

 obstruction

3 (1.8%)

12 (3.0%)

0.602

 perforation

2 (1.2%)

1 (0.3%)

0.208

 Burn

6 (3.7%)

9 (2.3%)

0.361

 Orthopaedics

3 (1.8%)

9 (2.3%)

0.986

 Urology

4 (2.4%)

19 (4.8%)

0.291

 CTD

2 (1.2%)

7 (1.8%)

0.915

 Others

7 (4.3%)

21 (5.3%)

0.601

  1. Data are presented as numbers (median and percentage), or ratios or mean ± standard deviation
  2. BMI Body mass index, ACD Coronary artery disease, AMI Acute myocardial infarction, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome, CTD Connective tissue disease
  3. aChi-square
  4. btwo-tailed Student’s t test