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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 Aug;87(2):342–349. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002263

Table 2.

Outcomes of patients requiring emergent OR/IR (n=468)

Variable Group 1 (n=102) Group 2 (n=102) Group 3 (n=104) Group 4 (n=100) Group 5 (n=60) p*
Transfusions during active resuscitation <0.01
 RBC (units) 5 (4, 8) 7 (4, 11) 8 (5, 14) 13 (8, 24) 20 (11, 37)
 Plasma (units) 2 (1, 3) 3 (2, 6) 5 (2, 10) 8 (4, 15) 14 (6, 20)
 Platelets (units) 1 (0, 1) 1 (0, 2) 1 (1, 2) 2 (1, 3) 3 (1, 4)
Mortality at 6 hours (n, %) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 55 (92%) 1.00
Mortality at 24 hours (n, %) 1 (1%) 2 (2%) 2 (2%) 1 (%) 59 (98%) 1.00
Mortality at 30 days (n, %) 8 (8%) 8 (8%) 8 (8%) 15 (15%) 60 (100%) 0.25
Time to death (days) 3.6 (1.3, 6.3) 2.8 (0.8, 11.9) 7.1 (1.5, 18.5) 8.8 (2.5, 11.2) 0.09 (0.05, 0.15) 0.74
Cause of death (n, %) 0.01
 Exsanguination 0 (0%) 2 (2%) 3 (3%) 0 (0%) 60 (100%)
 TBI 6 (6%) 4 (4%) 3 (3%) 10 (10%) 4 (7%)
 Respiratory 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 3 (5%)
 MOF 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 4 (4%) 6 (6%) 0 (0%)
 Sepsis 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%)
 PE 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
 Other 1 (1%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 1 (2%)
ICU-free days 26 (17, 28) 25 (8, 27) 22 (11, 26) 16 (0, 25) 0 (0, 0) <0.01
AKI (n, %) 13 (13%) 17 (17%) 29 (28%) 43 (43%) 2 (3%) <0.01
ARDS (n, %) 10 (10%) 14 (14%) 23 (22%) 33 (33%) 5 (8%) <0.01
MOF (n, %) 0 (0%) 2 (2%) 3 (3%) 14 (14%) 2 (3%) <0.01
Sepsis (n, %) 21 (21%) 26 (25%) 43 (41%) 45 (45%) 0 (0%) <0.01
VTE (n, %) 7 (7%) 10 (10%) 16 (15%) 14 (14%) 0 (0%) 0.20
Any complication§ (n, %) 38 (37%) 38 (37%) 61 (59%) 72 (72%) 60 (100%) <0.01
*

for first four groups only

not mutually exclusive

§

includes mortality, AKI, ARDS, MOF, sepsis, or VTE

RBC, red blood cells; TBI, traumatic brain injury; MOF, multiple organ failure; PE, pulmonary embolism; AKI, acute kidney injury; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; VTE, venous thromboembolism