Table 2.
Frequency distribution of factors associated with mortality in trauma patients.
| Variables | Frequency (Percentage, %) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Survival | Un-survival | ||
| Blood pressure (Mean ± SD) | 123.21 ± 18.75 | 97.95 ± 36.61 | <0.001 |
| Respiratory rate (Mean ± SD) | 18.82 ± 2.789 | 19.83 ± 7.74 | 0.001 |
| Heart rate (Mean ± SD) | 84.39 ± 14.23 | 97.81 ± 35.29 | 0.25 |
| Patient transfer time (min) | 0.15 | ||
| <30 | 356 (94.4) | 21 (5.6) | |
| 30–60 | 259 (92.2) | 22 (7.8) | |
| <60 | 59 (98.3) | 1 (1.7) | |
| Method of transfer | 0.007 | ||
| Ambulance (public & private) | 622 (88.2) | 83 (11.8) | |
| Personal vehicle & others | 122 (96.1) | 5 (3.9) | |
| Time of accident | 0.007 | ||
| 7:00–15:00 | 367 (93.9) | 24 (6.1) | |
| 15:00–20:00 | 116 (87.9) | 16 (12.1) | |
| 20:00–7:00 | 175 (96.7) | 6 (3.3) | |
| Triage level | <0.001 | ||
| Level 1 | 42 (34.4) | 22 (65.6) | |
| Level 2 | 82 (71.3) | 33 (28.7) | |
| Level 3 & higher | 596 (100.0) | 0 | |
| GCS | <0.001 | ||
| 13–15 | 696 (97.8) | 16 (2.2) | |
| 9–12 | 31 (79.5) | 8 (20.5) | |
| ≤8 | 26 (29.9) | 61 (70.1) | |
| ISS | <0.001 | ||
| 0–8 | 401 (99.5) | 2 (0.5) | |
| 9–5 | 271 (88.6) | 35 (11.4) | |
| ≥16 | 87 (68.0) | 41 (32.0) | |
| RTS | 0.9 | ||
| <7.96 | 720 (90.3) | 77 (9.7) | |
| ≥7.96 | 1 (100.0) | 0 | |
| TRISS | <0.001 | ||
| <96 | 54 (46.2) | 63 (53.8) | |
| ≥96 | 668 (97.9) | 14 (2.1) | |
GCS: Glasgow coma scale, ISS: injury severe score, RTS: revised trauma score, TRISS: trauma revised injury severity score.