Potential Risk Factors for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Blunt Multiple Trauma Who Survive Initial Resuscitation

Table 2

Causes of death in the acute and early phases after trauma and diagnosis on admission between 8 and 28 days or later for the 43 deaths.

	Deaths admission and 2 days’ hospitalization (acute phase); (n=12, 28)	Deaths between 3 and 7 days (early phase); (n=9, 21)	Deaths between 8 to 28 days or more (late phase); (n=22, 51)	Total deaths; (n=43)
Traumatic brain injury	3 (7%)	3 (7%)	10 (23%)	16 (37%
Severe hemorrhage	2 (5%)	2 (5%)	2 (5%)	6 (14%)
Traumatic brain injury and severe hemorrhage	7 (16%)	3 (7%)	10 (23%)	20 (47%)
Pulmonary embolism	-	1 (2%)	-	1 (2%)