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Table 3 Treatments that were in place and then withdrawn from children

From: Withdrawal of treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit at a Children’s Hospital in China: a 10-year retrospective study

Treatments

Total, n = 680,(%)

Medical withdrawing, n = 174,(%)

Premature withdrawing, n = 506,(%)

p*

Intravenous

437 (64.3)

103 (59.2)

334 (66.0)

0.106

Ventilation

279 (41.0)

105 (60.3)

174 (34.4)

< 0.001

Intubation

277 (40.7)

103 (59.2)

174 (34.4)

< 0.001

Antimicrobial therapy

113 (16.6)

19 (10.9)

94 (18.6)

0.019

Inotropic and vasopressors

70 (10.3)

7 (4.0)

63 (12.5)

0.002

Dialysis

25 (3.7)

8 (4.6)

17 (3.4)

0.454

Transfusion of blood products

21 (3.1)

3 (1.7)

18 (3.6)

0.228

Nutrition

9 (1.3)

3 (1.7)

6 (1.2)

0.701

  1. * p value for medical withdrawing vs. premature withdrawing