Table 5.

Treatment and clinical outcomes of road traffic crashes related thoracic injury patients before and after Jan 2011

	2003 group (n = 874)	2011 group (n = 1234)	p
Treatment (n, %)
Chest tube	255, 29.2%	308, 25.0%	0.031
Surgery	603, 69.0%	892, 72.3%	0.101
Rib fracture	264, 43.8%	380, 42.6%	0.651
Hemopneumothorax	204, 33.8%	322, 36.1%	0.368
Pulmonary laceration	105, 17.4%	130, 14.6%	0.139
Diaphragm rupture	13, 2.2%	28, 3.1%	0.254
Esophageal rupture	11, 1.8%	21, 2.4%	0.487
Heart contusion	6, 1.0%	11, 1.2%	0.670
Outcome
Hospital stay (day)	13.2 ± 9.1	12.9 ± 8.7	0.444
ICU
ICU usage (n, %)	253, 28.9%	396, 32.1%	0.123
ICU duration (day)	4.7 ± 1.5	4.9 ± 2.1	0.158
Ventilator
Ventilator usage (n, %)	93, 10.6%	178, 14.4%	0.011
Ventilator duration (h)	134.2 ± 19.1	136.3 ± 17.5	0.364
Mortality (n, %)	32, 3.7%	49, 4.0%	0.723
Hemorrhagic shock	16, 50.0%	21, 42.9%	0.528
Respiratory failure	10, 31.2%	18, 36.7%	0.612
Cardiac tamponade	6, 18.8%	10, 20.4%	0.855

p < 0.05 are given in bold

Categorical data are presented as number and percent; continuous data are presented as mean ± SD

SD standard deviation