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Table 1 Patient characteristics and prehospital airway management.

From: Temporal differences in gamma-hydroxybutyrate overdoses involving injecting drug users versus recreational drug users in Helsinki: a retrospective study

 

Group A

Group B

p-value

n

39 (39%)

61 (61%)

 

Sex (male)

19 (49%)

35 (57%)

0.397

Age*

24 (22;27)

25 (23;29)

0.134

History of injecting drug use

13 (33%)

36 (59%)

0.012

Intubated by EMS on scene

8 (21%)

14 (23%)

0.774

  1. Patients with serious GHB and GBL overdose treated by Helsinki EMS in 2006-2007.
  2. *Median and 25- and 75-percentiles.
  3. Group A: call to emergency dispatching centre made on Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday night between 11 pm and 6 am. Group B: call to emergency dispatching centre made at other times.
  4. GHB: gammahydroxybutyrate, GBL: gammabutyrolactone, EMS: Emergency Medical Service.
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1757-7241