Table 2. Injury Characteristics –
Injuries sustained (including aggregate lung injury score) during resuscitation are summarized and stratified by group with associated group comparison p-value parameters.
| 1.5 inch n= 23 |
1/3 APd n = 15 |
Overall N = 38 |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||
| Any Rib Fracture | 18 (78.3%) | 15 (100.0%) | 33 (86.8%) | 0.053 |
|
| ||||
| Number of Rib Fractures | 2.7 (1.7) | 6.7 (2.6) | 4.3 (2.9) | < 0.001 |
|
| ||||
| Any Blood in ETT | 0 (0.0%) | 12 (80.0%) | 12 (31.6%) | < 0.001 |
|
| ||||
| Any Sternal Fracture | 0 (0.0%) | 7 (46.7%) | 7 (18.4%) | < 0.001 |
|
| ||||
| Any Hemothorax | 0 (0.0%) | 6 (40.0%) | 6 (15.8%) | < 0.001 |
|
| ||||
| Any Aortic Dissection | 0 (0%) | 2 (13.3%) | 2 (5.3%) | 0.072 |
|
| ||||
| Any Vena Caval Dissection | 0 (0%) | 1 (6.7%) | 1 (2.6%) | 0.21 |
|
| ||||
| Any Myocardial Contusion | 15 (65.2%) | 10 (66.7%) | 25 (65.8%) | 0.703 |
|
| ||||
| Any Liver/Spleen Contusion | 1 (4.3%) | 2 (13.3%) | 3 (7.9%) | 0.315 |
|
| ||||
| Adjudicated LIS | ||||
| Median | 5 | 8.7 | 6.5 | < 0.001 |
| IQR | 5-5 | 8-10 | 5-8 | |
| Range | 1-7 | 6-10 | 1-10 | |
Abbreviations: APd – Anterior-Posterior Diameter; ETT – Endotracheal Tube, LIS – Lung Injury Score