Table 1.
Demographic and injury characteristics of the enrolled patients
| Features | |
|---|---|
| Sex (male) | 69.6% (126/181) |
| Age | 39 (12.3) |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian 93.3% (169/181) |
| African 6.6% (12/181) | |
| ISS a | 16 (3.2) |
| RTS b | 5.8 (1.2) |
| AAST c injury grade | 2 (1.8) |
| Associated injuries | 86.8% (157/181) |
| Mechanism of injury | Vehicle traffic accident (56.9%) |
| Aggression (20.9%) | |
| Pedestrian Struck (9.9%) | |
a
ISS: Injuries Severity Score;
b
RTS: Revised Trauma Score;
c
AAST: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Data are given as means with standard deviation in parenthesis, or percentages with row data in parenthesis.