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Table 3 The intensive-care outcomes of the trauma patients with or without prehospital intubation

From: Prehospital intubation of the moderately injured patient: a cause of morbidity? A matched-pairs analysis of 1,200 patients from the DGU Trauma Registry

 

Not intubated

Intubated

Total

P value

Emergency surgery (%)

0.8

0.3

0.6

0.3

Surgery (%)

82.8

86

84.4

0.13

Stay in intensive care unit (%)

87.2

95.2

91.2

≤ 0.001

Days in intensive care unit (MV, SD)

4.1 ± 5.9

5.9 ± 7.1

5 ± 6.6

≤ 0.001

Days intubated (MV, SD)

1.3 ± 4.9

3 ± 5.6

2.2 ± 5.4

≤ 0.001

Ventilator-free days (30 days, MV, SD)

28.6 ± 4.6

26.9 ± 5.4

27.8 ± 5.1

≤ 0.001

Organ failure (%)

9.1

23.4

16.2

0.001

Multiple organ failure (%)

4.3

9.8

7

≤ 0.001

Sepsis (%)

1.5

3.7

2.6

0.02

Died in hospital (%)

1

0.5

0.8

0.32

Days in hospital (MV, SD)

20 ± 15.1

22.4 ± 15.1

21.2 ± 15.5

≤ 0.001

Costs (€; MV, SD, referring to days of stay)

15,911.1 ± 11.1

20,061.4 ± 17,493.3

18,060 ± 14,905.5

≤ 0.001

  1. Values shown as mean ± standard deviation or percentage of the group. MV, mean value; SD, standard deviation.