Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics. (ISS = Injury Severity Score, ARDS = Acute respiratory distress syndrome, bold…p-value < 0.05).
| Characteristics | Healthy probands n = 8 |
Isolated thoracic injuries n = 5 |
Polytraumatized patients n = 120 |
Polytraumatized patients w/o chest trauma n = 12 |
Polytraumatized patients with chest trauma n = 108 |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median age (IQR) | 36 (20–63) | 46 (25–76) | 39 (18–85) | 35 (18–77) | 39 (18–85) | 0.484 |
| Male (%) | 4 (50) | 3 (67) | 85 (71) | 10 (83) | 75 (69) | 0.505 |
| Median ISS (range) | — | — | 29 (16–59) | 28 (16–36) | 29 (17–59) | 0.194 |
| Mortality (%) | — | 0 (0) | 5 (4) | 0 (0) | 5 (5) | 0.585 |
| Median AIS (range) | — | 3 (3–3) | 3 (0–5) | 0 (0) | 4 (1–5) | 0.001 |
| Severe Thoracic Trauma (%) | — | 5 (100) | 91 (76) | 0 (0) | 91 (84) | 0.001 |
| ARDS (%) | — | 0 (0) | 36 (30) | 3 (25) | 33 (31) | 0.488 |
| Pneumonia (%) | — | 0 (0) | 35 (29) | 6 (50) | 29 (27) | 0.094 |
| Ventilator days (range) | — | — | 3 (0–76) | 9 (0–31) | 3 (0–76) | 0.470 |