Table 3.

Results

	Overall	Hypertonic Saline (HS) group	Conventional fluid therapy group	p-value
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