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Table 3 Pre-hospital life-sustaining treatments according to mode of transport.

From: Impact of emergency medical helicopter transport directly to a university hospital trauma center on mortality of severe blunt trauma patients until discharge

  

Mode of Transport

 
 

all patients

number (%)

number = 1,958

HMICU

number (%)

number = 516

GMICU

number (%)

number = 1,442

P

Aggressive therapya

287 (14.7)

97 (18.8)

190 (13.2)

0.002

(1)Tracheal intubation

1,050 (53.6)

308 (59.7)

742 (51.5)

0.001

(2) Colloids or SSH

1,074 (54.9)

238 (46.1)

836 (58.0)

<0.001

(3) Crystalloids ≥1000 ml

431 (22.0)

131 (25.4)

300 (20.8)

0.031

(4) Catecholamines

261 (13.3)

93 (18.0)

168 (11.7)

<0.001

(5) Blood products

72 (3.7)

43 (8.3)

29 (2.0)

<0.001

(6) Exsufflation or chest tube

38 (1.9)

14 (2.7)

24 (1.7)

0.14

  1. aAggressive therapy: if three or more of criteria (1) to (6) were present. GMICU, ground mobile intensive care unit; HMICU, helicopter mobile intensive care unit; SSH: hypertonic saline solution.
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