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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Injury. 2011 Aug 11;43(11):1827–1832. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.07.020

Table 6.

Patients misclassified as low risk by the clinical decision rule

Patient Critical care intervention LOS (ICU, hospital)
62 year old male in MVC Intubated on hospital day # 3 for delirium tremens 13, 27
55 year old male with a ground level fall Intubated in the ED after declining mental status upon return from computed tomography scan 6, 17
21 year old male in MVC two days prior to ED arrival Maintained normal mental status but taken for craniotomy due to size of epidural hematoma 2, 7
41 year old male with a ground level fall and a history of end stage liver disease Initial INR was 1.84 thus required 2 units of fresh frozen plasma in ED, no other blood product transfusion during hospitalization 5, 59

Abbreviations: MVC, motor vehicle collision; ED, emergency department; INR, international normalized ratio; LOS, length of stay; ICU, intensive care unit; GCS, Glasgow Coma Score; ISS, injury severity score