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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Jan;88(1):33–41. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002485

Table 2.

Arrival laboratory measurements of resuscitation, shock parameters and coagulopathy across mechanism of injury; caption (Abbreviations - complete blood count, CBC; hemoglobin, HGB; international normalized ratio, INR; prothrombin time, PT; partial pressure of carbon dioxide, pCO2; maximum amplitude, MA; lysis at 30 minutes, LY30; activated clotting time, ACT)

Median (IQR) Blunt Penetrating p
465 161
CBC and Coagulation
HGB 11.6 (9.7, 13.3) 11.5 (10.0, 13.5) 0.350
INR 1.3 (1.1, 1.5) 1.3 (1.1, 1.5) 0.580
PT 14.8 (13.25, 17.5) 14.4 (13.3, 16.5) 0.440
Arterial Blood Gas
pH 7.28 (7.20, 7.34) 7.31 (7.25, 7.37) 0.028
Base Excess −8.2 (−11.3, −6.0) −10 (−15.9, −6.0) 0.129
Thromboelastogram
R time 0.8 (0.6, 0.8) 0.8 (0.7, 0.8) 0.720
Kappa 1.7 (1.2, 2.7) 1.8 (1.2, 2.6) 0.840
αAngle 70.4 (62.0, 74.9) 70.2 (63.5, 74.7) 0.880
MA 58.3 (49.7, 64.5) 59.1 (49.6, 63.0) 0.500
LY30 0.3 (0.0, 2.0) 1.2 (0.0, 3.5) 0.006
ACT 113 (105, 136) 121 (105, 128) 0.310