Table 3 Results

Mean of Systolic Blood Pressure values on accident site in mmHg (SD)

122 (29)

118 (32)

125 (26)

0.293

Mean of Systolic Blood Pressure values on admission to hospital in mmHg (SD)

141 (26)

141 (26)

141 (28)

0.945

Mean of change in Systolic Blood Pressure values in mmHg between accident site and admission to hospital (SD)

21 (30)

27 (35)

17 (26)

0.652

Mean of Heart rate values (beats per minute) on accident site (SD)

86 (20)

86 (20)

86 (22)

0.976

Mean of Heart rate values on admission to hospital (SD)

93 (25)

99 (23)

88 (25)

0.241

Mean of change in Heart rate values between accident site and admission to hospital (SD)

7 (17)

12 (20)

3 (14)

0.248

Mean of Base Excess values (BE) (mmol/L) on accident site (SD)

-2.6 (4.0)

-2.8 (4.1)

-2.4 (4.1)

0.866

Mean of Base Excess values (BE) (mmol/L) on admission to hospital (SD)

-3.3 (3.4)

-5.0 (2.8)

-1.9 (3.3)

0.008 *

Mean of differences in Base Excess values between accident site and admission to hospital (SD)

-0.6 (2.8)

-2.1 (2.6)

-0.5 (2.4)

0.003 *

Mean of pH values on accident site (SD)

7.38 (0.09)

7.35 (0.11)

7.41 (0.07)

0.205

Mean of pH values on admission to hospital (SD)

7.36 (0.08)

7.31 (0.07)

7.40 (0.06)

0.000 *

Mean of differences in pH values between accident site and admission to hospital (SD)

-0.03 (0.09)

-0.04 (0.12)

-0.01 (0.05)

0.196

Mean of Haemoglobin values (Hb) (g/L) on accident site (SD)

135 (17)

135 (17)

135 (17)

0.963

Mean of Haemoglobin values (Hb) (g/L) on admission to hospital (SD)

119 (19)

114 (20)

124 (17)

0.074

Mean of differences in Haemoglobin values between accident site and admission to hospital (SD)

-16 (14)

-22 (14)

-11 (12)

0.016 *

Mean of patient Lactate levels (mmol/L) on admission to hospital (SD)

2.34 (1.37)

2.21 (1.26)

2.46 (1.49)

0.871