Table 1:

Number of Subjects Who Did Not Meet the Physiologic or Anatomic Criteria of the FTDC, But Met the Criterion Standard Used to Determine Trauma Center Need

Consensus-Based Criterion Standard Definition	Number of Patients with Outcome (n=7,911)
Advanced airway management within 4 hours of arrival - excludes intubation solely for surgical purposes	21
More than 1 unit of a blood product within 4 hours of arrival - included any blood received from EMS and was based on orders regardless of supply or time to infuse	11
Admitted to the hospital for spinal cord injury - identified based on discharge codes and/or procedure notes.	2
Thoracotomy within 48 hours of arrival and did not meet NAEMSP/ACS-COT criteria for termination	0
Pericardiocentesis within 24 hours of arrival and did not meet NAEMSP/ACS-COT criteria for termination	0
Emergency cesarean delivery within 24 hours of arrival	0
Vascular, neurologic, abdominal, thoracic, pelvic, spine or limb-conserving surgery within 24 hours of arrival	22
Intra-cranial pressure monitoring within 48 hours of arrival	1
Interventional radiology within 4 hours of arrival	1
Died before discharge but arrived not in cardiac arrest	0
Thoracostomy within 2 hours of arrival - added by investigators, not in original criteria	3