Characteristics at the Time of ICU Admission | No Early Gut Colonization N = 104 | Early Gut Colonization N = 27 | P-value | |
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Age (tertiles) | ≤ 56 years | 30 (75.0%) | 10 (25.0%) | 0.177 |
57–67 years | 39 (88.6%) | 5 (11.4%) |  | |
≥ 68 years | 35 (74.5%) | 12 (25.5%) |  | |
Sex | female | 59 (79.7%) | 15 (20.3%) | 0.913 |
male | 45 (78.9%) | 12 (21.1%) | Â | |
ICU Type | Cardiac | 23 (82.1%) | 5 (17.9%) | 0.884 |
Medical | 31 (77.5%) | 9 (22.5%) | Â | |
Neurological | 11 (73.3%) | 4 (26.7%) | Â | |
Surgical | 39 (81.3%) | 9 (18.8%) | Â | |
Admission Diagnosis, by System | Cardiovascular | 35 (85.4%) | 6 (14.6%) | 0.735 |
Digestive | 28 (73.7%) | 10 (26.4) | Â | |
Respiratory | 18 (75.0%) | 6 (25.0%) | Â | |
Genitourinary | 7 (100%) | 0 (0.0%) | Â | |
Neurologic | 6 (75.0%) | 2 (25.0%) | Â | |
Neurosurgery | 5 (71.4%) | 2 (28.6%) | Â | |
Metabolic | 1 (100%) | 0 (0.0%) | Â | |
Other | 4 (80.0%) | 1 (20.0%) | Â | |
Pre-ICU1 Days in Hospital | 0 days | 78 (80.4%) | 19 (19.6%) | 0.719 |
1–2 days | 13 (72.2%) | 5 (27.8%) |  | |
> 2 days | 13 (81.3%) | 3 (18.8%) |  | |
Receiving Dialysis | Yes | 2 (66.7%) | 1 (33.3%) | 0.582 |
No | 102 (79.7%) | 26 (20.3%) | Â | |
Receiving Ventilation | Yes | 38 (84.4%) | 7 (15.6%) | 0.301 |
No | 66 (76.7%) | 20 (23.3%) | Â | |
Vital Signs | Temperature > 38 °C | 1 (50.0%) | 1 (50.0%) | 0.300 |
Heart Rate ≥ 120/min | 8 (80.0%) | 2 (20.0%) | 0.960 | |
Resp. Rate > 20/min | 32 (76.2%) | 10 (23.8%) | 0.534 | |
MAP ≤ 65 | 9 (81.8%) | 2 (18.2%) | 0.835 | |
Lab values | WBC (109/L) > 10 | 63 (81.8%) | 14 (18.2%) | 0.412 |
Hct (%) ≤ 40 | 81(77.9%) | 23 (22.1%) | 0.403 | |
Albumin (g/dL) ≤ 3.4 | 43 (78.2%) | 12 (21.8%) | 0.771 | |
Creatinine (mg/dL) > 1.2 | 37 (82.2%) | 8 (17.8%) | 0.562 | |
Glasgow coma scale | < 5 | 27 (79.4%) | 7 (20.6%) | 0.973 |
5–10 | 10 (76.9%) | 3 (23.1%) |  | |
> 10 | 67 (79.8%) | 17 (20.2%) |  | |
APACHE IV score (tertiles) | Low (≤ 42 points) | 35 (79.5%) | 9 (20.5%) | 0.842 |
Middling (43–73 points) | 36 (81.8%) | 8 (18.2%) | ||
High (> 73 points) | 33 (76.7%) | 10 (23.3%) |