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. 2017 May 4;40(2):113–120. doi: 10.1016/j.bj.2016.10.005

Table 3.

Comparison of injury characteristics between those patients who have a positive or negative BAC in the male and female patients.

Male
Female
Alcohol>50 n = 564 Alcohol≦50 n = 3464 OR(95%CI) p Alcohol>50 n = 69 Alcohol≦50 n = 2850 OR(95%CI) p
GCS 12.1 ± 3.9 14.3 ± 2.2 <0.001 11.6 ± 4.0 14.4 ± 2.0 <0.001
ISS 13.2 ± 9.8 9.5 ± 7.4 <0.001 13.3 ± 10.7 8.6 ± 6.9 0.001
AIS≥2, n(%)
 Head/Neck 249(44.1) 762(22.0) 2.8(2.33–3.37) <0.001 30(43.5) 537(18.8) 3.3(2.04–5.38) <0.001
 Face 192(34.0) 542(15.6) 2.8(2.29–3.39) <0.001 27(39.1) 354(12.4) 4.5(2.76–7.44) <0.001
 Thorax 94(16.7) 484(14.0) 1.2(0.97–1.57) 0.092 9(13.0) 274(9.6) 1.4(0.69–2.87) 0.306
 Abdomen 55(9.8) 205(5.9) 1.7(1.26–2.35) 0.001 12(17.4) 162(5.7) 3.5(1.84–6.64) 0.001
 Extremity 252(45.0) 2216(64.0) 0.5(0.39–0.55) <0.001 36(52.2) 1941(68.1) 0.5(0.32–0.83) 0.006
Mortality 21(3.7) 56(1.6) 2.4(1.41–2.92) <0.001 2(2.9) 32(1.1) 2.6(0.62–11.20) 0.191
Hospital LOS
 days 12.2 ± 11.6 9.7 ± 10.7 <0.001 12.2 ± 10.0 9.0 ± 9.2 0.010
ICU LOS
 n (%) 214(37.9) 645(18.6) 2.7(2.21–3.23) <0.001 23(33.3) 408(14.3) 3.0(1.80–4.99) <0.001
 days 6.5 ± 6.3 8.0 ± 10.1 0.009 7.8 ± 8.0 6.4 ± 7.7 0.411