Blunt Cardiac Injury in Trauma Patients with Thoracic Aortic Injury

Table 2

Comparison between patients with TAI (study group) and without TAI (control group).

	Study group (𝑛=26)	Control group (𝑛=52)	𝑃 value
Mean age (years) (SD, range)	45.1 (21.2, 20–98)	46.9 (15.7, 17–81)	0.673
Male gender	19	38	1.000
Mechanism of trauma			0.001
Motor vehicle collision	23	26
Fall	0	18
Others	3	8
Presence of underlying cardiac disease	4	2	0.091
Mean length of stay (days) (mean, SD, range)	25.1 (21.9, 0–84)	12.5 (10.9, 0–43)	0.001
Mean abbreviated injury scales (SD, range)
Head	1.62 (1.9, 0–5)	1.81 (2.0, 0–5)	0.689
Chest	4.31 (0.5, 4-5)	4.17 (0.5, 3–5)	0.247
Extremity	2.04 (1.2, 0–3)	1.83 (1.2, 0–4)	0.469
Face	0.50 (0.8, 0–2)	0.37 (0.7, 0–2)	0.463
Abdomen	1.62 (1.6, 0–5)	1.29 (1.5, 0–4)	0.373
External	0.73 (0.5, 0–2)	0.67 (0.5, 0–2)	0.619
Mean injury severity score (SD, range)	34.42 (11.1, 17–57)	32.60 (11.1, 16–59)	0.497
Treatment of TAI		N/A
Surgery	12
Endovascular	12
Medical	2
Outcome			0.326
Survive	23	50
Died within 24 hours of arrival	2	2
Died within one month	1	0