Table 1.

Data of the seven patients with delayed emergency surgery

Patient Nr	Sex, age	Trauma mechanism	Initial ISS	GCS	Injury	Diagnostic method	Time between tertiary survey and surgery	Admission after ER	Initial resucitation	Result
1	M, 49	Fall > 3 m	17	10	Femur fracture, pneumothorax, brain injury, bowel contusion, bleeding	Sonography	4.5 h	ICU	Fluids (responder)	Discharged day 10
2	F, 51	MVA	17	14	Hemato-pneumothorax, pelvic fracture, bowel perforation	Ascites punction	1 day	ICU	Fluids (responder)	Discharged day 20
3	F, 73	MVA	48	3	Brain injury, multiple fractures, thoracic trauma, spine injury, bowel perforation with peritonitis	CT scan	8 days	ICU	Fluids (responder) Blood (ICU)	Death day 18
4	M, 30	MVA	43	3	Brain injury, multiple fractures, thoracic injury, spine injury, bowel perforation	Sonography Ascites punction, CT scan	2 days	ICU	Fluids (responder) Blood (ICU)	Discharged day 38
5	M, 37	MVA	34	3	Multiple fractures, spleen injury, pneumothorax, bowel perforation with peritonitis	Ascites punction	6 days	ICU	Fluids (responder) Blood (ICU)	Discharged day 19
6	M, 90	MVA	50	10	Brain injury, hemato-pneumothorax, multiple fractures, spine injury, bowel perforation	Sonography	5.5 h	ICU	Fluids (responder) Blood (ICU)	Death day 11
7	M, 18	MVA	27	14	Pneumothorax, femur fracture, epidural bleeding	CT scan	13 h	ICU	Fluids (responder)	Discharged day 8