Table 1.
Baseline characteristics and comparison between the age groups.
| Age < 70 | Age ≥ 70 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | Mean | Standard Deviation | n | % | Mean | Standard Deviation | ||
| gender | female | 276 | 24.8% | 159 | 46.0% | ||||
| male | 835 | 75.2% | 187 | 54.0% | |||||
| trauma mechanism | penetrating | 68 | 6.1% | 3 | 0.9% | ||||
| blunt | 1043 | 93.9% | 343 | 99.1% | |||||
| ISS (points) | 31 | 15 | 37 | 22 | |||||
| At admission | |||||||||
| heart rate (beats/min) | 91 | 23 | 85 | 21 | |||||
| systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | 125 | 26 | 133 | 29 | |||||
| base excess (mmol/L) | −4.1 | 4.8 | −3.6 | 4.4 | |||||
| lactate (mmol/L) | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.1 | |||||
| haemoglobin (g/L) | 11.43 | 2.60 | 10.93 | 2.22 | |||||
| haematokrit (L/L) | 33.26 | 7.30 | 32.15 | 6.12 | |||||
| thrombocytes (103/µL) | 204 | 72 | 186 | 77 | |||||
| GCS (points) | 10 | 5 | 9 | 5 | |||||
| presence of coagulopathy (INR > 1.4) | 237 | 21.3% | 61 | 30.2% | |||||
| Outcome | |||||||||
| death during hospitalisation | 179 | 16.1% | 104 | 46.0% | |||||
| Length of stay (days) | 17 | 19 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| complications | 593 | 53.4% | 158 | 45.7% | |||||
ISS: Injury Severity Score; GCS: Glasgow coma scale; INR: international normalized ratio.