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Table 5 Demographics, physiology, and outcome in patients who had daytime surgery (07:00–16:59) and who had surgery during off-hours (17:00–06:59)

From: Outcome of severely injured patients in a unique trauma system with 24/7 double trauma surgeon on-call service

 

Day time surgery

(n = 137)

Off-hours surgery

(n = 176)

P-value

Age (years)

47(29–61)

40 (25–57)

0.25

Blunt MOI

125 (91)

160 (91)

0.92

ISS

29 (22–40)

34 (26–38)

0.28

SBP_ED (mmHg)

110 (85–134)

115 (94–132)

0.77

BD_ED (mEq/L)

−4.0 (–7.5–1.0)

−3.0 (−7.0–1.0)

0.77

Hb_ED (mmol/L)

7.9 (6.8–9.0)

7.9 (7.1–8.7)

0.81

Time from ED to OR (h:mm)

1:03 (0:39–2:55)

1:15 (0:55–2:27)

0.07

Duration of surgery (h:mm)

2:05 (1:20–2:50)

2:00 (1:30–3:00)

0.54

MODS

25 (18)

26 (15)

0.41

ARDS

6 (4)

6 (3)

0.66

Infectious complications

63 (46)

70 (44)

0.69

Thrombo-embolic complications

15 (11)

19 (11)

0.97

Mortality

29 (21)

30 (17)

0.36

  1. Data are expressed in median (IQR) or absolute numbers (%)
  2. MOI mechanism of injury, ISS injury severity score, SBP systolic blood pressure, Hb hemoglobin, BD base deficit, ED emergency department, OR operating room, MODS multiple organ dysfunction syndrome