Table 5 Potentially severely injured patients admitted with trauma team activation and with one or more criteria applied in the mechanism-of-injury group, and no criteria applied in vital-functions or extent-of-injury group, n = 132
From: Evaluation of a university hospital trauma team activation protocol
Criterion | Criterion applied to the patient (no. of patients) | Criterion applied to a severely injured patient (ISS>15), (no. of patients) | Criterion applied to a patient receiving an emergency procedure (no. of patients) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mechanism of injury | 19. Ejected from vehicle | 2 | 0 | 0 |
20. Co passenger dead | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
21. Trapped in wreck | 6 | 2 (33%) | 4 (67%) | |
22. Pedestrian or cyclist hit by motor vehicle | 17 | 3 (18%) | 2 (12%) | |
23. Motorcycle accident | 14 | 0 | 1 (7%) | |
24. Considerable deformation of vehicle passenger compartment | 41 | 2 (5%) | 3 (7%) | |
25. Traffic accident with speed>60 km/h | 67 | 3 (4%) | 6 (9%) | |
26. Fall from >5 m | 7 | 3 (43%) | 3 (43%) | |
27. Avalanche accident | 4 | 1 (25%) | 0 | |