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Table 1 Clinical and laboratory characteristics in infants with bronchiolitis treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) at Stavanger University Hospital during four years

From: Continuous positive airway pressure for bronchiolitis in a general paediatric ward; a feasibility study

 

Paediatric ward N = 33

ICU n = 13

p-value

Gender (boys/girls)

17/16

10/3

0.184

Gestational age (weeks)

38 (34, 40)

37 (34, 38)

0.383

Age at admission (weeks)

34 (20, 61)

25 (18, 40)

0.157

RS-virus (yes/no)

26/7

11/2

0.712

cPCO2 before CPAP

8.0 (7.7, 8.6)

9.3 (8.5, 9.9)

<0.001

cPCO2 4 hours

6.9 (6.6, 7.4)

8.0 (7.5, 8.5)

<0.001

Duration of CPAP (hours)

24 (8, 44)

30 (19, 60)

0.195

Length of total hospital stay

7 (5, 8)

8 (6, 11)

0.085

  1. Children in the first group were treated in the paediatric ward only, and children in the second group in the intensive care unit (ICU) only (n = 4) or referred to the ICU after treatment in the paediatric ward (n = 9). Results are given as median (quartiles).