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Table 4 Treatment and clinical outcomes of traffic crashes related thoracic injury patients in comparison with non-traffic crashes related chest traumas

From: Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of road traffic crashes related thoracic traumas: analysis of 5095 hospitalized chest injury patients

 

RTCR chest trauma (n = 2108)

Non-RTCR chest trauma (n = 2987)

p

Treatment (n, %)

 Chest tube

563, 26.7%

901, 30.2%

0.007

 Surgery

1495, 70.9%

720, 24.1%

0.001

Outcome

 Hospital stay (day)

13.0 ± 9.6

11.8 ± 7.4

0.001

 ICU

  ICU usage (n, %)

648, 30.7%

586, 19.6%

0.001

  ICU duration (day)

4.8 ± 1.9

4.6 ± 1.7

0.191

 Ventilator

  Ventilator usage (n, %)

271, 12.9%

225, 7.5%

0.001

  Ventilator duration (h)

135.6 ± 18.2

132.4 ± 19.3

0.058

 Mortality (n, %)

81, 3.8%

47, 1.6%

0.005

  1. p < 0.05 are given in bold
  2. Categorical data are presented as number and percent; continuous data are presented as mean ± SD
  3. SD standard deviation, RTCR road traffic crashes related
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

ISSN: 1749-8090

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