Twenty-three patients (10%) were deceased on day 8, and 30 (13%) patients were deceased on day 30.
Two patients developed pneumonia; one patient with Acinetobacter baumannii and Escherichia coli in bronchoalveolar lavages (diagnosed on day 7, deceased on day 20), and the other with clinical and radiological diagnosis (diagnosed on day 4, deceased on day 5).
One patient had pancreatic abscess caused by Enterococcus faecalis (diagnosed on day 23, deceased on day 41).
Indeed, 51% of patients with PCT concentrations of 5 μg/l or greater were deceased at day 30 or admitted to the ICU, as compared with 13% of patients in whom PCT concentration was not elevated.
Another patient with AP from biliary origin developed acute cholecystitis complicated with emphysematous cholecystitis 2 days after the onset of AP, and during the emergency laparotomy, purulent material was found in abdominal cavity and pancreas inflammation was confirmed (deceased on day 7).
Shown is a univariate analysis comparing group I (patients deceased at day 30 or admitted to intensive care unit [ICU]) and group II (all other patients) and identification of variables associated with critical illness (ICU admission or death) after stepwise logistic regression analysis.
Shiva will be observed at the home of the deceased Wednesday and Thursday.
* One HIV negative and seven HIV positive patients had deceased before 3rd day; IQR, interquartile range.
When a patient was discharged or was deceased during postoperative day 1, displayed dosages were normalized to 24 hours.
It took five whole days for the town of Jindo, which has housed many of the families of the missing and deceased since Wednesday, to be declared a special disaster zone.
In all, 15 inventors, both living and deceased, were inducted Saturday.
