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Table 4 Outcome comparison between patients with a thoracic and cervical esophageal injury

From: Non-iatrogenic esophageal injury: a retrospective analysis from the National Trauma Data Bank

 

Total

Thoracic

Cervical

 

(n = 944)

(n = 613)

(n = 331)

p

Mortality

113

(12.0)

86

(14.0)

27

(8.2)

0.008

 1-day mortality

71

(7.5)

57

(9.3)

14

(4.2)

0.005

 30-day mortality

109

(11.5)

83

(13.5)

26

(7.9)

0.009

Mechanical ventilation (days)a, median (IQR)

5

(2–14)

6

(2–15)

4

(2–11)

0.124

ICU stay (days)a, median (IQR)

7

(3–15)

7

(3–16)

6

(3–13)

0.157

Hospital length of stay (days)a, median (IQR)

12

(5–23)

13

(5–25)

11

(5–22)

0.131

Complicationsb

 Acute kidney injury

19

(2.5)

12

(2.5)

7

(2.5)

0.998

 ARDS

43

(5.7)

31

(6.5)

12

(4.3)

0.21

 Deep SSI

19

(2.5)

14

(2.9)

5

(1.8)

0.334

 Pneumonia

61

(8.1)

45

(9.5)

16

(5.8)

0.072

 DVT

27

(3.6)

20

(4.2)

7

(2.5)

0.23

 Sepsis

26

(3.4)

23

(4.8)

3

(1.1)

0.006

 PE

12

(1.6)

12

(2.5)

0

(0.0)

0.008

 Cardiac arrest

16

(2.1)

10

(2.1)

6

(2.2)

0.958

 Organ/space SSI

17

(2.3)

12

(2.5)

5

(1.8)

0.519

 Stroke/CVA

8

(1.1)

6

(1.3)

2

(0.7)

0.717

 Superficial SSI

20

(2.7)

15

(3.2)

5

(1.8)

0.265

 UTI

25

(3.3)

16

(3.4)

9

(3.2)

0.927

 Catheter related Blood infection

3

(0.4)

2

(0.4)

1

(0.4)

1

 Overall complication

184

(24.4)

129

(27.1)

55

(19.8)

0.024

 Overall infectious complication

127

(16.8)

88

(18.5)

39

(14.0)

0.115

  1. Values are presented as median (IQR) and n (%)
  2. ICU intensive care unit, ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, SSI surgical site infection, DVT deep vein thrombosis, PE pulmonary embolism, CVA cerebrovascular accident, UTI urinary tract infection, IQR interquartile range
  3. aInclude only patients without mortality (n = 831)
  4. bInclude only patients with hospital length of stay >2 days (n = 754)