Research Article
Potential Risk Factors for In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Blunt Multiple Trauma Who Survive Initial Resuscitation
Table 3
Patients’ vital signs and laboratory findings during emergency admission.
| | | Survivors
(n=152, 88) | Nonsurvivors
(n=43, 22) | All patients
(n=195) | p |
| | Vital signs | | | | | | Mean arterial pressure (mmHg) | 90±17 | 69±25 | 85±21 | 0.0001 | | Heart rate (beats/min) | 82±14 | 100±28 | 86±20 | 0.0001 | | Respiratory rate (breaths/min) | 19±4 | 17±11 | 19±6 | 0.223 | | Body temperature (°C) | 36.5±0.3 | 36.4±0.3 | 36.5±0.3 | 0.085 | | Laboratory findings | | | | | | pH | 7.387±0.1 | 7.273±0.2 | 7.362±0.1 | 0.0001 | | pO2 (mmHg) | 82±25 | 71±29 | 80±27 | 0.006 | | pCO2 (mmHg) | 35±7 | 38±14 | 36±9 | 0.080 | | HCO3 (mEq) | 22±4 | 18±5 | 21±4 | 0.0001 | | O2 saturation (%) | 92±11 | 82±23 | 90±15 | 0.015 | | Lactate (mg/dL) | 27±17 | 43±22 | 30±19 | 0.0001 | | White blood cell count (103 cells/mm3) | 16.2±7.1 | 16.8±6.1 | 16.3±6.1 | 0.432 | | Hemoglobin (g/dL) | 13.1±2.3 | 11.5±2.6 | 12.7±2.5 | 0.001 | | Hematocrit (%) | 40±6 | 35±7 | 38±7 | 0.001 | | Platelet count (103 cells/mm3) | 246±83 | 241±101 | 245±87 | 0.635 | | aPTT (sec) | 32±32 | 42±49 | 34±36 | 0.024 | | International normalized ratio | 1.1±0.2 | 1.3±0.6 | 1.3±0.6 | 0.029 | | Serum glucose (mg/dL) | 154±60 | 201±88 | 146±70 | 0.0001 | | Blood urea nitrogen (mg/dL) | 16±5 | 16±4 | 16±5 | 0.383 | | Serum creatinine (mg/dL) | 0.8±0.5 | 0.9±0.3 | 0.9±0.5 | 0.019 | | Serum alanine aminotransferase (IU) | 80±129 | 111±250 | 87±163 | 0.737 | | Serum aspartate aminotransferase (IU) | 91±115 | 126±203 | 99±140 | 0.223 | | Serum lactate dehydrogenase (IU) | 518±277 | 591±385 | 591±385 | 0.209 |
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aPTT: activated partial thromboplastin time. p values for comparisons between the surviving and nonsurviving groups. |
