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Table 3 Components of critical illness

From: A pre-hospital risk score predicts critical illness in non-trauma patients transported by ambulance to a Dutch tertiary referral hospital

Total number of critically ill patients - n (%)

356 (12.1)

Mortality < 28 days without ICU admittance- n (%)

97 (27)

ICU admittance - n (%)

259 (73)

Need for mechanical ventilation

127 (36)

Hemodynamic instability

40 (11)

Combination respiratory insufficiency and hemodynamic instability

92 (26)

Died

65 (25)

  1. Abbreviations: ICU Intensive Care Unit