Research Article
Complications of Trauma Patients Admitted to the ICU in Level I Academic Trauma Centers in the United States
Table 3
Summary of complications for trauma cases.
| | Complication | Overall
(%) | Survivors
(%) | Deceased
(%) | value |
| | Postoperative pulmonary compromise | 1733 (30.7%) | 1299 (27.9%) | 434 (43.8%) |
<0.0001*** | | Venous thrombosis/pulmonary embolism | 627 (11.1%) | 568 (12.2%) | 59 (6.0%) | <0.0001*** | | Other complications of procedures | 464 (8.2%) | 411 (8.8%) | 53 (5.4%) | 0.0002** | | Mechanical complications due to device or implant | 356 (6.3%) | 306 (6.6%) | 50 (5.1%) | 0.0588 | | Cellulitis or decubitus ulcer | 329 (5.8%) | 306 (6.6%) | 23 (2.3%) | <0.0001*** | | Postprocedural hemorrhage or hematoma | 312 (5.5%) | 261 (5.6%) | 51 (5.2%) | 0.4951 | | Postoperative pneumonia | 309 (5.5%) | 244 (5.2%) | 65 (6.6%) | 0.1772 | | Reopening of surgical site | 262 (4.6%) | 218 (4.7%) | 44 (4.4%) | 0.6748 | | Wound infection | 262 (4.6%) | 242 (5.2%) | 20 (2.0%) | <0.0001*** | | Miscellaneous complications | 254 (4.5%) | 228 (4.9%) | 26 (2.6%) | 0.0016* | | Procedure-related perforations or lacerations | 192 (3.4%) | 155 (3.3%) | 37 (3.7%) | 0.7043 | | Postoperative infections not pneumonia/wound | 187 (3.3%) | 171 (3.7%) | 16 (1.6%) | 0.0010* | | Postoperative GI hemorrhage or ulceration | 84 (1.5%) | 71 (1.5%) | 13 (1.3%) | 0.6494 | | Postoperative stroke | 82 (1.5%) | 67 (1.4%) | 15 (1.5%) | 1.000 | | Postoperative AMI |
61 (1.1%) | 39 (0.84%) | 22 (2.2%) | 0.0004** | | Postoperative cardiac abnormality | 47 (0.83%) | 14 (0.30%) | 33 (3.3%) | <0.0001*** | | Shock or cardiorespiratory arrest | 26 (0.46%) | 10 (0.21%) | 16 (1.6%) | <0.0001*** | | Aspiration pneumonia | 24 (0.42%) | 20 (0.43%) | 4 (0.40%) | 1.000 | | Postoperative urinary tract complication | 18 (0.32%) | 14 (0.30%) | 4 (0.40%) | 0.8703 | | Postoperative physical and metabolic derangements | 15 (0.27%) | 11 (0.24%) | 4 (0.40%) | 0.5881 | | Central or peripheral nervous system | 3 (0.05%) | 2 (0.04%) | 1 (0.10%) | 1.000 | | Septicemia | 2 (0.04%) | 1 (0.02%) | 1 (0.10%) | 0.7956 | | Complications related to anesthetic agents/CNS agents | 1 (0.02%) | 1 (0.02%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1.000 |
| | TOTAL | 5650† | 4659 | 991 | |
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