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. 2021 Feb 15;48(3):1769–1778. doi: 10.1007/s00068-020-01599-4

Table 1.

Demographics, trauma mechanisms, injury pattern and outcome. Continuous values are presented as mean / median (standard deviation)

TC ETC EF Total
n 1601 5249 6241 13,091
Demographics
 Age, mean (SD) 47.0 (21.7) 48.1 (22.3) 40.6 (18.9) 44.4 (21.0)
 Male (%) 70.5 70.6 74.3 72.4
 Penetrating Injury mechanisms (%) 2.9 2.1 3.4 2.8
 Car (%) 30.3 29.5 43.1 36.1
 Motorcycle (%) 23.3 20.2 27.6 24.1
 Bicycle (%) 5.3 4.6 2.9 3.9
 Pedestrian (%) 7.5 5.2 5.0 5.4
 High fall > 3 m (%) 17.3 19.4 14.0 16.6
 Low fall < 3 m (%) 10.7 14.9 2.8 8.6
 Outcome
 ICU stay (%) 83.8 91.9 96.7 93.2
 ICU LOS, mean/median (SD), day 8.2/3 (13.3) 7.6/3 (11.5) 13.2/8 (15.7) 10.3/5 (14.1)
 Ventilation time, mean/median (SD), day 4.2/0 (9.3) 3.8/1 (9.0) 7.4/2 (12.4) 5.6/1 (10.9)
 Ventilator-free days, mean (SD) 22.0 (11.9) 25.7 (8.4) 21.8 (10.6) 23.4 (10.1)
 LOS, mean/median (SD) 24.8/18 (25.2) 23.7/18 (20.4) 32.9/26 (25.9) 28.3/22 (24.2)
 MOF (%) 30.2 16.0 33.1 25.9
 Sepsis (%) 7.4 5.4 11.8 8.8
 Mortality (%) 24.5 5.0 8.7 9.1
 RISC II prognosis (%) 18.8 5.9 10.4 9.6
 SMR [95% CI] 1.30 [1.19–1.41] 0.85 [0.75–0.95] 0.83 [0.77–0.90]
Injury characteristics
 ISS, mean (SD) 26.1 (15.4) 19.1 (10.7) 25.4 (13.4) 23.0 (13.0)
 ISS ≥ 16 (%) 71.3 53.5 73.9 65.4
 AIS head ≥ 3 (%) 29.4 17.0 27.5 23.5
 AIS thorax ≥ 3 (%) 46.2 31.7 49.8 42.1
 AIS abdomen ≥ 3 (%) 14.1 9.2 17.5 13.7
Multiple femur fractures (%) 3.7 5.1 14.9 9.6