Table 2 Comorbidities, complications, treatment of complications, and clinical outcomes for all subjects and for those in the non-elderly and elderly groups
From: The Role of Age in Predicting the Outcome of Caustic Ingestion in Adults: A Retrospective Analysis
Parameter | Total (n= 389) | Non-elderly (< 65 years) (n= 321) | Elderly (≧ 65 years) (n= 68) | Pvalue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychological comorbidities 1 | 176 (45.2) | 155 (48.3) | 21 (30.9) | 0.009* |
Systemic comorbiditities 1 | 123 (31.6) | 73 (22.7) | 50 (73.5) | < 0.001* |
Suicide/accident 1 | 0.699 | |||
Suicide | 282 (72.5) | 234 (72.9) | 48 (70.6) | |
Accident | 107 (27.5) | 87 (27.1) | 20 (29.4) | |
Systemic complications 1 | 73 (18.8) | 47 (14.6) | 26 (38.2) | < .001* |
Aspiration pneumonia1 | 49 (12.6) | 33 (10.3) | 16 (23.5) | 0.003* |
Respiratory failure1 | 37 (9.5) | 21 (6.5) | 16 (23.5) | < .001* |
DIC1 | 14 (3.6) | 7 (2.2) | 7 (10.3) | 0.005* |
Hepatic2 | 14 (3.6) | 11 (3.4) | 3 (4.4) | 0.719 |
GI complications 1 | 90 (23.1) | 72 (22.4) | 18 (26.5) | 0.493 |
Stricture1 | 81 (20.8) | 67 (20.9) | 14 (20.6) | 0.958 |
Bleeding2 | 17 (4.4) | 14 (4.4) | 3 (4.4) | 1.000 |
Perforation2 | 11 (2.8) | 8 (2.5) | 3 (4.4) | 0.298 |
Fistula2 | 5 (1.3) | 5 (1.6) | 0 (0) | 0.592 |
Fever1 | 82 (21.1) | 57 (17.8) | 25 (36.8) | 0.001* |
Antibiotic usage2 | 114 (29.3) | 81 (25.2) | 33 (48.5) | < .001* |
Operationa,1 | 63 (16.2) | 52 (16.2) | 11 (16.2) | 0.996 |
Dilatationa,1 | 35 (9.0) | 26 (8.1) | 9 (13.2) | 0.179 |
ICU admissions1 | 48 (12.3) | 28 (8.7%) | 20 (29.4%) | < .001* |
Days in the ICU3 | 10.0 (3.2) | 9 (2.8) | 10.0 (3.5) | 0.249 |
Number of expirations in the ICU1 | 24 (6.2) | 12 (3.7) | 12 (17.6) | < .001* |
Days to expiration in the ICU3 | 16.0 (1.6) | 15.0 (1.7) | 16.0 (3.6) | 0.273 |