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Table 2 Intubating characteristics 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)

X2 or 95% CI

P

ICU admission

74 (45.1%)

157 (39.8%)

1.328

0.249

Departments of ETI

  

2.406

0.121

 Surgical ward

42 (25.6%)

127 (32.2%)

  

 Medical ward

122 (74.4%)

267 (67.8%)

  

Mortality after ETI

 1 day

65 (39.6%)

164 (41.6%)

0.190

0.663

 7 days

85 (51.8%)

218 (55.3%)

0.572

0.450

 30 days

105 (64.0%)

268 (68.0%)

0.834

0.361

Reasons for intubation

 Respiratory diseases

90 (54.9%)

239 (60.7%)

1.600

0.206

 Cardiovascular diseases

60 (36.6%)

123 (31.2%)

1.514

0.219

 Neurological diseases

14 (8.5%)

26 (6.6%)

0.653

0.420

 Others

1 (0.6%)

5 (1.3%)

0.056

0.812

CPCR

 Pre-ETI

51 (31.1%)

98 (24.9%)

0.292

0.130

 Post-ETI

51 (31.1%)

116 (29.4%)

0.151

0.697

Pre-ETI characteristics

 HR (BPM)

116.051 ± 35.019

114.635 ± 32.443

−4.654 to 7.482

0.647

 MAP (mmHg)

83.555 ± 27.597

85.071 ± 26.202

−6.370 to 3.344

0.540

 SPO2 (%)

79.701 ± 16.496

79.558 ± 16.459

−2.868 to 3.152

0.927

 SI

0.993 ± 0.424

0.984 ± 0.413

−0.064 to 0.093

0.736

  1. Data are presented as numbers (median and percentage), or ratio or mean ± standard deviation
  2. ICU Intensive care unit, ETI Emergent endotracheal intubation, CPCR Cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation, HR Heart rate, MAP Mean arterial pressure, SPO2 Pulse oxygen saturation, SI Shock index
  3. aChi-square
  4. btwo-tailed Student’s t test