Table 1.
Patients baseline characteristics and injury details
| |
|
Trauma center admission |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients 431 (100%) | Direct 282 (65%) | Delayed 149 (35%) | p-Value | |
|
Age |
54 (32–64) |
49 (24–64) |
59 (47–66) |
< 0.001 |
|
Male gender |
307 (71) |
188 (67) |
119 (80) |
0.004 |
|
Location of the incident |
|
|
|
|
| Home |
107 (25) |
61 (22) |
46 (31) |
< 0.001 |
| Public place inside |
55 (13) |
37 (13) |
18 (12) |
|
| Public place outside |
205 (48) |
157 (56) |
48 (32) |
|
| Other / Unknown |
64 (14) |
27 (9) |
37 (25) |
|
|
Time of incident |
|
|
|
|
| Weekday |
279 (65) |
181 (64) |
98 (66) |
0.743 |
| Weekend |
152 (35) |
101 (36) |
51 (34) |
|
| 8-17 (office hours) |
206 (48) |
126 (45) |
80 (54) |
|
| 17-8 (outside office hours) |
225 (52) |
156 (55) |
69 (46) |
|
|
Injury energy* |
|
|
|
|
| High |
130 (30) |
127 (45) |
3 (2) |
< 0.001 |
| Low |
301 (70) |
155 (55) |
146 (98) |
|
|
Penetrating injury |
6 (1) |
6 (2) |
0 (0) |
0.073 |
|
Physician consulted |
86 (20) |
59 (21) |
27 (18) |
< 0.001 |
|
Physician present |
208 (48) |
184 (65) |
24 (16) |
< 0.001 |
|
EMS risk category |
|
|
|
|
| A-B |
304 (71) |
230 (82) |
74 (50) |
< 0.001 |
| C-D |
74 (17) |
32 (11) |
42 (28) |
|
| Missing |
53 (12) |
20 (7) |
33 (22) |
|
|
Time intervals (hh:min) |
|
|
|
|
| Injury to EMS arrival |
0:10 (0:07–0:16) |
0:10 (0:07–0:17) |
0:10 (0:07–0:16) |
0.750 |
| Injury to first hospital |
1:05 (0:49–1:27) |
1:07 (0:52–1:28) |
1:03 (0:43–1:24) |
0.177 |
| Time spent at other hospital |
|
|
3:03 (1:51–4:50) |
|
| Injury to trauma center | 1:23 (0:58–2:51) | 1:07 (0:52–1:28) | 4:05 (2:53–5:43) | < 0.001 |
Categorical variables are presented as N (%) and continuous variables as median (IQR).
Abbreviations: TBI= Traumatic Brain Injury, EMS= Emergency Service Personnel.
*High-energy traumas are defined as velocities over 25 km/h or falls from over two meters height.