We grouped the patients according to anticoagulation with heparin or lepirudin, respectively, and analyzed the groups for differences in length of ICU stay, bleeding complications, scores (APACHE II, SAPS, TISS), and mortality.
In addition, time on mechanical ventilation, time on vasopressors, length of ICU stay and bleeding complications did not differ between the groups.
In multivariate analysis, RBC transfusion is an independent factor that worse survival in the ICU: OR 1.39 CI (1.31-1.47) p < 0.01, adjusted for age, sex, length of ICU stay, postoperative bleeding, preoperative hemoglobin, CPB duration and EUROSCORE.
These include Dove's-foot Crane's-bill Geranium molle, an anodyne plant claimed by Nicholas Culpeper to have a wide range of medicinal uses and an "excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers and fistulas".
In addition, time on mechanical ventilation, time on vasopressors, lengths of stay and bleeding complications did not differ between the groups.
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After adjusting for age, APACHE II score, admitting diagnosis, ventilation status, and six MODS domains, the ICU stay attributable to bleeding by the regression method was 6.2 days (95% CI = 1.0 11.4 days).
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There were no significant differences in age, sex or baseline APACHE II score between patients in the first and second databases, and the results of the attributable mortality and length of ICU stay associated with bleeding were similar (P > 0.05).
