Hematocrit and 28-day mortality in mechanically ventilated septic patients: a prospective observational study
Lianghai Cao, Youlian Zhou, Pengcheng Shen, Hui Cui, Jin Tang, Min Xiao, Ping Fang, Guilan Ding, Jun Qiu · 2026
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Lianghai Cao and co-authors study whether the share of red cells in the blood predicts death in ventilated patients with sepsis, in a 2026 paper. Sepsis on a breathing machine carries a high death rate, and the red cell share, hematocrit, has shown promise as a warning marker in sepsis generally. Its value in this sickest subgroup had not been tested.
The team followed 233 patients and split them at a hematocrit cutoff drawn from their own data, near 26.7 percent. Forty patients, about 17 percent, died within 28 days. Those below the cutoff faced a clearly higher risk of death than those above it, after adjusting for other factors. Repeat resampling checked that the cutoff was not a fluke of this sample. The authors propose hematocrit as a cheap added signal in intensive care.
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| CREATOR | Lianghai Cao, Youlian Zhou, Pengcheng Shen, Hui Cui, Jin Tang, Min Xiao, Ping Fang, Guilan Ding, Jun Qiu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |