Is Prehospital Time Important for the Treatment of Severely Injured Patients? A Matched-Triplet Analysis of 13,851 Patients from the TraumaRegister DGU®
Table 3
Clinical course and outcome of patients with short, intermediate, or long emergency treatment times after trauma.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
All patients
p-values
Early SURG (%)
6.7
5.8
5.2
5.9
0.02
Stay in intensive care unit (%)
93.4
94.3
94.8
94.2
0.02
Days in the intensive care unit (mean, SD)
11.3 ± 13.9
11.3 ± 13.4
11.4 ± 13.4
11.3 ± 13.6
0.01
Days intubated (mean, SD)
7.0 ± 11.5
7.0 ± 10.8
7.1 ± 11.3
7.0 ± 11.2
0.06
Organ failure (%)
49.1
47.8
46.4
47.7
0.10
Multiple organ failure (%)
31.6
29.6
28.2
29.8
0.01
Sepsis (%)
9.3
8.6
10.0
9.3
0.14
RISC prognosis (mean, SD)
21.9 ± 29.3
20.5 ± 28
18.7 ± 25.7
20.4 ± 27.7
≤ 0.001
TRISS prognosis (mean, SD)
24.9 ± 32.2
22.2 ± 30.1
20.4 ± 28.4
22.6 ± 30.3
≤ 0.001
Died in hospital (%)
20.4
18.1
15.9
18.1
≤ 0.001
Died within the first hour (%)
2.3
1.3
1.0
1.5
≤ 0.001
Died within the first 24 hours (%)
12.0
9.7
8.2
10.0
≤ 0.001
Days of hospitalization (mean, SD)
24.6 ± 25
25.7 ± 26.8
25.6 ± 24.5
25.3 ± 25.4
≤ 0.001
Values are shown as the mean, standard deviation (SD) or % for the group. ED, emergency department; SURG, surgery; ICU, intensive care unit; RISC, Revised Injury Severity Classification; TRISS, Trauma and Injury Severity Score.
