AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with ...AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with those of patients with pancreatitis-related respiratory failure as well as controls.METHODS:One hundred and forty-eight patients with respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and concomitant acute pancreatitis were identified from a prospectively collected dataset of 9108 consecutive patients admitted with respiratory failure over a period of five years.Sixty patients met the criteria for ventilator-related pancreatitis,and 88(control patients),for pancreatitis-related respiratory failure.RESULTS:Mortality rate in ventilator-related pancreatitis was comparable to that in ICU patients without pancreatitis by case-control methodology(P=0.544).Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified low PaO2/FiO2(OR:1.032,95% CI:1.006-1.059,P=0.016) as an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The mortality rate in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis was lower than that in patients with acute pancreatitis-related respiratory failure(P<0.001).CONCLUSION:We found that low PaO2/FiO2 was an independent clinical parameter predictive of ICU mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.展开更多
文摘AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with those of patients with pancreatitis-related respiratory failure as well as controls.METHODS:One hundred and forty-eight patients with respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and concomitant acute pancreatitis were identified from a prospectively collected dataset of 9108 consecutive patients admitted with respiratory failure over a period of five years.Sixty patients met the criteria for ventilator-related pancreatitis,and 88(control patients),for pancreatitis-related respiratory failure.RESULTS:Mortality rate in ventilator-related pancreatitis was comparable to that in ICU patients without pancreatitis by case-control methodology(P=0.544).Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified low PaO2/FiO2(OR:1.032,95% CI:1.006-1.059,P=0.016) as an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The mortality rate in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis was lower than that in patients with acute pancreatitis-related respiratory failure(P<0.001).CONCLUSION:We found that low PaO2/FiO2 was an independent clinical parameter predictive of ICU mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.
