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Table 1 Survivorship according to demographic data and outcome indicators

From: Training to identify red flags in the acute care of trauma: who are the patients at risk for early death despite a relatively good prognosis? An analysis from the TraumaRegister DGU®

 

Survivor

Non-survivor

p value

Early deaths < 24 h

Late deaths > 24 h

p value

Age ≥ 60 years

n (%)

13,887 (22.0)

749 (54.6)

p< 0.001

126 (41.9)

623 (58.2)

p< 0.001

ASA 3–4

n (%)

3987 (8.7)

346 (35.9)

p< 0.001

47 (23.4)

299 (39.2)

p< 0.001

ISS

Mean ± SD

16.3 ± 9.1

20.7 ± 11.0

p< 0.001

22.0 ± 12.3

20.3 ± 10.5

p= 0.083

RISC II predicted mortality

Mean ± SD

1.9 ± 2.3

5.3 ± 2.9

p< 0.001

5.9 ± 2.8

5.1 ± 2.9

p< 0.001

Air rescue

n (%)

15,527 (25.4)

341 (25.6)

p= 0.912

68 (23.4)

273 (26.2)

p= 0.328

Admission during on-call hours

n (%)

42,108 (67.6)

854 (63.6)

p= 0.002

201 (68.4)

653 (62.2)

p= 0.054

Trauma center

Level 1

n (%)

38,518 (61.1)

878 (64.0)

p= 0.08

165 (54.8)

713 (66.6)

p< 0.001

Level 2

20,085 (31.9)

411 (30.0)

109 (36.2)

302 (28.2)

Level 3

4404 (7.0)

83 (6.0)

27 (9.0)

56 (5.2)

SBP ≤ 90 mmHg, prehospital

n (%)

5021 (8.9)

175 (14.5)

p< 0.001

67 (25.9)

108 (11.4)

p< 0.001

SBP ≤ 90 mmHg, on admission

n (%)

2736 (4.8)

125 (10.3)

p< 0.001

54 (21.3)

71 (7.4)

p< 0.001

GCS ≤ 8, prehospital

n (%)

5657 (9.5)

261 (20.3)

p< 0.001

74 (26.5)

187 (18.6)

p= 0.004

  1. ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, BE base excess, GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, Hb hemoglobin, ISS Injury Severity Score, RISC II Revised Injury Severity Classification version 2, SBP systolic blood pressure