Bedside Biliary Drainage without Fluoroscopy for Critically Ill Patients

Table 3

Risk factors for mortality in 74 cases (, %).

	Nonsurvivors	Survivors	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
			95% CI		95% CI
APACHE II^e
>22	23 (50)	23 (50)	2.205-31.500	0.001	2.148-31.569	0.002
≤22	3 (10.7)	25 (89.3)
Biliary drainage
ERBD	4 (20)	16 (80)	0.810-9.3405	0.110	0.101-1.380	0.14
ENBD	22 (40.7)	32 (59.3)

^eThe APACHE II score in nonsurvivors was significantly higher than survivors, versus , .