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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013 May;74(5):1207–1214. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31828c44fd

Table 3.

Demographics, injury characteristics, and outcomes in subjects with PH hypotension

HIGH LOW p value
N (%) 480 (80) 123 (20) -
Age (years) 40 (25 – 52) 40 (29 – 54) 0.28
Gender (% male) 66 76 66
PH SBP low (mmHg) 66±25 70±19 0.07
PH time (mins) 66 (48 – 90) 42 (30 – 66) <0.01
Initial BD −8.8±5 −9.5±6 0.10
Initial INR 1.6±0.9 1.3±0.6 <0.01
ISS 41 (31 – 50) 41 (29 – 50) 0.53
24hr PRBC (units) 8.2 (4.7 – 15.1) 7 (3.3 – 14.2) 0.02
24hr FFP (units) 4 (1.3 – 9.1) 2.6 (0 – 6.7) <0.01
24hr PLT (6 pack) 0.7 (0 – 1.7) 0 (0 – 1.1) 0.06
24hr Crystalloid (L) 14.1 (10.5 – 19.1) 10.7 (7.1 – 17.8) <0.01
30 day mortality 18 19 0.90
24 hour mortality 8 7 0.58
ATC (%) 33 8 <0.01
MOF (%) 31 38 0.16
ARDS (%) 29 23 0.18

PH, prehospital; SBP, systolic blood pressure; BD, base deficit; PRBC, packed red blood cells; FFP, fresh frozen plasma; PLT, platelets; ATC, acute traumatic coagulopathy