Table 2 Patients characteristics and indication for PHAAM* (N = 734)

Isolated traumatic brain injury

40

5.4

Multitrauma (blunt)

60

8.1

Strangulation /suffocation

16

2.2

Burns

11

1.5

Other blunt trauma

16

2.2

Blunt trauma, total

143

19.5

Penetrating trauma

4

0.5

Trauma, total

147

20.0

Cardiac arrest

407

55.4

Cardiac (excluding cardiac arrest)

20

2.7

Asthma / COPD

37

5.0

Stroke / subarachnoid hemorrhage

83

11.3

Oto- rhino- laryngology

3

0.4

Other patient categories

102

13.9

First respiratory rate below 8

424

57.8

First respiratory rate over 30

24

3.3

First oxygen saturation below 90%

665 **

90.6

First heart rate below 40

352

48.0

First heart rate over 180

2

0.3

First systolic blood pressure below 90 mmHg

386

52.6

First GCS*** 3-8

640

87.2

First GCS*** 9-13

50

6.8

First GCS*** 14-15

35

4.8