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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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