Table 1.

Demographic and admission characteristics in both types of trauma

	Vehicular assaults (n = 26)	Pedestrian trauma (n = 81)	P value
Age, meana	24.7 ± 13.3	48.3 ± 21.3	<0.001
Sex (males)	21 (81)	42 (52)	0.009
ICU admission	18 (69)	31 (38)	0.006
ICU LOS, mean (days)a	4.3 ± 6.8	7.8 ± 9	NS
LOS, mean (days)a	11.9 ± 13.5	11.5 ± 12.7	NS
Required surgery	17 (65.4)	38 (46.9)	0.1
Number of surgical procedures per patient, meana	1.7 ± 0.7	1.2 ± 0.5	0.007
Received blood in first 24 h	13 (50)	15 (19)	0.0015

The Student’s t-test and chi-squared test were used for statistical analysis as appropriate

Abbreviations: LOS length of stay, ICU intensive care unit

^aData shown as number (and percentage) and mean ± standard deviation