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Table 3 Injuries where stress ulcer prophylaxis is routinely administered*

From: Stress ulcer prophylaxis in trauma patients

Injury

Yes

No

Do not have substantial numbers of this injury

Head injury

106 (90%)

5 (4%)

7 (6%)

Spinal cord injury

100 (85%)

6 (5%)

11 (10%)

Thermal injury

62 (57%)

6 (6%)

40 (37%)

Multiple trauma

102 (88%)

10 (9%)

4 (3%)

Hepatic injury with need for partial resection

77 (69%)

12 (11%)

23 (20%)

  1. * Data are expressed as the number of institutions responding to the question (percentage of responders).