Table 2. Outcomes for Trauma Population With and Without Severe Head Injuries.
Variable | Severe head injury (n=335) |
No severe head injury (n=687) |
p Value |
---|---|---|---|
Hospital mortality | 13.4% | 9.3% | 0.04 |
ICU Infection | 50.1% | 46.7% | 0.32 |
No. of ICU infections | 1.0 [1.0] | 0.0 [1.0] | 0.60 |
Blood stream infection | 24.2% | 35.4% | 0.06 |
Ventilator associated pneumonia | 29.6% | 25.9% | 0.23 |
Urinary tract infection | 15.2% | 13.5% | 0.72 |
Catheter-related infection | 13.1% | 10.7% | 0.56 |
Wound infection | 4.0% | 8.4% | 0.22 |
Abdominal infection | 2.0% | 5.1% | 0.34 |
CNS/CSF infection | - | - | n/a |
Hospital length of stay, d | 18.0 [15.0] | 17.0 [15.0] | 0.62 |
ICU Length of stay, d | 9.0 [8.0] | 9.0 [9.0] | 0.34 |