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Table 3 Association and number of patients by category of prehospital care provider, TTA criteria, undertriage and correct triage

From: Precision of field triage in patients brought to a trauma centre after introducing trauma team activation guidelines

 

Total

Severely injured

Dead within 30 days

Proximal penetrating injury

ICU > 2 days or transferred intubated

ISS > 15

Admission:

      

   Anaesthetist

1 623 (35%)

1 059 (65%)

185 (11%)

80 (5%)

756 (47%)

902 (56%)

   Paramedic

3 036 (65%)

1 162 (38%)

173 (6%)

372 (12%)

476 (16%)

739 (24%)

   Total

4 659 (100%)

2 221 (48%)

358 (8%)

452 (10%)

1 232 (26%)

1 641 (35%)

Patients with TTA

4 440 (95%)

2 002 (45%)

316 (7%)

426 (10%)

1 154 (26%)

1 467 (33%)

TTA criteria:

      

   Anatomic

1 192 (27%)

702 (59%)

107 (9%)

235 (20%)

361 (30%)

452 (38%)

   Physiologic

76 (2%)

42 (55%)

9 (12%)

12 (16%)

20 (26%)

28 (37%)

   MOI

1 508 (34%)

392 (26%)

33 (2%)

4 (0%)

245 (16%)

324 (22%)

   Multiple patients

8 (0%)

3 (38%)

0 (0%)

1 (13%)

1 (13%)

2 (25%)

   Several

760 (17%)

504 (66%)

127 (17%)

62 (8%)

351 (46%)

430 (57%)

   Unknown

896 (20%)

359 (40%)

40 (5%)

112 (13%)

176 (20%)

231 (26%)

Undertriage

219

219 (100%)

42 (19%)

26 (12%)

78 (36%)

174 (80%)

Correct triage

2 002

2 002 (100%)

316 (16%)

426 (21%)

1 154 (58%)

1 467 (73%)

  1. ICU: Intensive Care Unit; ISS: Injury Severity Score; MOI: Mechanism of Injury