Table 4 Outcomes of treatment for blunt hepatic and splenic injuries
Length of hospital stay (days, missing = 4) | ||||
Median (range) | 14 (0–382) | 16 (0–382) | 13 (0–112) | < 0.001 |
In-hospital mortality (% of all patients) | 35 (4.8%) | 28 (7.5%) | 7 (1.9%) | < 0.001 |
Mortality of primary NOM patients | 21 (3.5%) | 17 (5.6%) | 4 (1.3%) | 0.006 |
Mortality of primary surgical patients | 14 (11%) | 11 (15.9%) | 3 (5.2%) | 0.086 |
Cause of death (% of deaths) | ||||
Sepsis | 7 (20%) | 7 (25%) | 0 (0%) | 0.436 |
Hemorrhagic shock | 3 (8.6%) | 3 (10.7%) | 0 (0%) | |
Intracranial hypertension | 11 (31.4%) | 8 (28.6%) | 3 (42.9%) | |
Multiorgan failure | 5 (14.3%) | 3 (10.7%) | 2 (28.6%) | |
Cardiac dysfunction/infarction | 1 (2.9%) | 1 (3.6%) | 0 (0%) | |
Arrived with CPR, no ROSC | 6 (17.1%) | 5 (17.9%) | 1 (14.3%) | |
Other/unknown | 2 (5.7%) | 1 (3.6%) | 1 (14.3%) | |