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Table 2 Percent of physicians indicating crystalloids as first choice for volume expansion based on patient types

From: Fluid resuscitation practice patterns in intensive care units of the USA: a cross-sectional survey of critical care physicians

  

Practice settings

  

University hospital

Nonuniversity hospital

  

(n = 138)

(n = 351)

All clinical specialties

n

138

364

 

Patient type 1

71.7 %

74.7 %

 

Patient type 2

45.7 %

61.5 %*

 

Patient type 3

64.5 %

73.6 %

Anesthesiologists only

n

31

94

 

Patient type 1

74.2 %

79.8 %

 

Patient type 2

32.3 %

52.1 %*

 

Patient type 3

51.6 %

73.4 %*

Surgeons only

n

35

90

 

Patient type 1

65.7 %

76.7 %

 

Patient type 2

45.7 %

66.7 %*

 

Patient type 3

60.0 %

73.3 %

Critical care medicine only

n

33

71

 

Patient type 1

60.6 %

64.8 %

 

Patient type 2

42.4 %

59.2 %

 

Patient type 3

54.5 %

64.8 %

Pulmonologists only

n

39

109

 

Patient type 1

84.6 %

75.2 %

 

Patient type 2

59.0 %

67.0 %

 

Patient type 3

87.2 %

79.8 %

  1. Patient type 1: patient who needs volume expansion but is not bleeding and not septic. Patient type 2: patient who needs volume expansion in the presence of blood loss when blood transfusion is not indicated (adequate Hb) and patient is not septic. Patient type 3: patient who needs volume expansion for resuscitation in sepsis
  2. *Statistically significant differences of P < 0.05 between practice settings within physician specialty
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