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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: Compliance to advanced trauma life support protocols in adult trauma patients in the acute setting

 

All patients (n = 508)

TTL (n = 274)

Non-TTL (n = 234)

p-value

Male

375 (73.8%)

210 (76.6%)

165 (70.5%)

0.117

Mean age (years)

39.7 (SD 17.6)

39.2 (SD 17.3)

40.3 (SD 18.0)

0.457

Mean ISS

24.5 (SD 10.7)

25.4 (SD 11.0)

23.5 (SD 10.2)

0.045

Mean ICU LOS (days)

3.7 (SD 9.0)

4.5(SD 9.8)

2.9 (SD 7.8)

0.040

Mean total LOS (days)

14.5 (SD 23.0)

16.2 (SD 28.1)

12.4 (SD 14.6)

0.050

RTS

6.15 (SD 3.1)

5.81 (SD 3.30)

6.55 (SD 2.82)

0.007

Mechanism of injury

    

  Blunt

467 (91.9%)

248 (90.5%)

219 (93.6%)

  Penetrating

29 (5.7%)

21 (7.7%)

8 (3.4%)

  Burns

12 (2.4%)

5 (1.8%)

7 (3.0%)

Mortality

25 (4.9%)

15 (5.5%)

10 (4.3%)

0.682

Readmission*

19 (4.0%)

9 (3.5%)

10 (4.5%)

0.642

  1. ICU Intensive Care Unit, ISS Injury Severity Score, LOS Length of Stay, RTS Revised Trauma Score, TTL Trauma team leader.
  2. *Unplanned readmission within 60 days of discharge.