Table 1.
Demographic, Injury and Outcome Characteristics
| Age (years) | 40 (24–52) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 553 (67%) |
| Female | 267 (33%) |
| Race/Ethnicity | |
| Caucasian | 622 (76%) |
| African-American | 62 (8%) |
| Hispanic | 56 (7%) |
| Asian | 45 (6%) |
| Injury Severity Score | 27 (18–34) |
| Severe Traumatic Brain Injury | 359 (44%) |
| Severe Thoracic Injury | 418 (51%) |
| Severe Abdominal Injury | 256 (31%) |
| Severe Extremity Injury | 374 (46%) |
| Injury Mechanism | |
| Blunt | 726 (89%) |
| Penetrating | 94 (12%) |
| Interventions | |
| Laparotomy | 212 (26%) |
| Thoracotomy/Thoracoscopy | 101 (12%) |
| Fracture Fixation | 415 (51%) |
| Outcomes | |
| Complicated Sepsis | 244 (30%) |
| Died | 117 (14%) |
| ICU length of stay (days) | 7 (3–14) |
| Hospital length of stay (days) | 16 (9–25) |
These data are for the 820 patients who were transfused within 24 hours of hospital admission. Continuous data are presented as medians (25th –75th percentile) and categorical data are indicated as total for the entire cohort (percentages). Severe traumatic brain, thoracic, abdominal, and extremity injuries refer to the number of patients with AIS scores ≥ 3 in the indicated body region.