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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Oct;79(4):643–648. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000825

Table 1.

Demographics and Outcomes

Total (44492) Undetectable 0 (31957) Moderate 1–100 mg/dL (3549) High 101–230 mg/dL (5504) Very High >230 mg/dL (3482) P-value
DEMOGRAPHICS
Age (Years) 35 (23–49) 36 (23–52) 31 (22–45) 31 (23–44) 37 (26–48) <0.001
Sex (Male) 31120 (70.0) 21082 (66.0) 2752 (77.5) 4394 (79.8) 2892 (83.1) <0.001

INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME
Injury Mechanism
Blunt 37385 (84.0) 27325 (85.5) 2567 (72.3) 4433 (80.5) 3060 (87.9)
Penetrating 6099 (13.7) 3803 (11.9) 926 (26.1) 998 (18.1) 372 (10.7)
Crush 273 (0.6) 241 (0.8) 7 (0.2) 18 (0.3) 7 (0.2)
Hanging 67 (0.2) 52 (0.2) 6 (0.2) 9 (0.2) 0 (0.0)
Ingestion 16 (0.0) 9 (0.0) 2 (0.1) 4 (0.1) 1 (0.0) <0.001
Burn 43 (0.1) 33 (0.1) 1 (0.0) 4 (0.1) 5 (0.1)
Near Drowning 20 (0.0) 10 (0.0) 3 (0.1) 3 (0.1) 4 (0.1)
Inhalation 500 (1.1) 414 (1.3) 31 (0.9) 28 (0.5) 27 (0.8)
Other 89 (0.2) 70 (0.2) 6 (0.2) 7 (0.1) 6 (0.2)

MAP <65 1668 (3.7) 1064 (3.3) 225 (6.3) 254 (4.6) 1064 (3.3) <0.001
Pulseless (ACLS) (N=44486) 654 (1.5) 443 (1.4) 108 (3.0) 85 (1.5) 18 (0.5) <0.001
Unsurvivable injury* 297 (0.7) 203 (0.6) 45 (1.3) 35 (0.6) 14 (0.4) <0.001
Shock Index ≥ 1 2030 (4.6) 1214 (3.8) 379 (6.3) 379 (6.9) 226 (6.5) <0.001
Severe Injury (N=43237) 10790 (24.3) 7456 (24.1) 975 (28.1) 1517 (28.0) 842 (24.5) <0.001
GCS≤8 (Comatose) 3127 (7.0) 1854 (5.8) 341 (9.6) 539 (9.8) 393 (11.3) <0.001
Traumatic Brain Injury 3706 (8.6) 2543 (8.2) 308 (8.9) 512 (9.4) 343 (10.0) <0.001
Length of Stay (Days) 0.6 (0.2–3.2) 0.5 (0.2–3.2) 0.6 (0.2–3.8) 0.7 (0.3–3.6) 0.6 (0.4–2.6) <0.001

OUTCOME
Home 35313 (79.4) 25077 (78.5) 2786 (78.5) 4509 (81.9) 2941 (84.5)
Acute Care 7039 (15.8) 5301 (16.6) 538 (15.2) 777 (14.1) 423 (12.2)
Chronic Care 110 (0.2) 104 (0.3) 4 (0.1) 2 (0.0) 0 (0.0) <0.001
Other 144 (0.3) 110 (0.3) 9 (0.3) 14 (0.3) 11 (0.3)
In-hospital death 1886 (4.2) 1365 (4.3) 212 (6.0) 202 (3.7) 107 (3.1)

GCS = Glasgow Coma Score; ISS = Injury Severity Score; MAP = mean arterial blood pressure

*

Unsurvivable injury = abbreviated injury score of 6 (unsurvivable) for any anatomic region

Traumatic Brain Injury = abbreviated injury score ≥ 4 for brain

Continuous values are presented as medians with interquartile ranges, and categorical values are presented as numbers with percentages.

Chronic Care: Skilled Nursing Facility/Long Term Acute Care