Severity-dependent differences in early management of thoracic trauma in severely injured patients - Analysis based on the TraumaRegister DGU®

Table 3 Numbers of different thoracic injuries: subgroups according to severity of thoracic trauma

	AIS-2	AIS-3	AIS-4	AIS-5/6
	n = 1973	n = 8052	n = 5433	n = 2237
Single	1637	4229	2014	518
Single	83%	53%	37%	23%
Multiple	336	3823	3419	1719
Multiple	17%	48%	63%	77%
Mean number of thoracic diagnoses	1.20 ± 0.47	1.66 ± 0.81	1.99 ± 0.98	2.43 ± 1.18

Total number of patients with one (single) or more (multiple) thoracic injuries and percentage within the group given as well as mean number of diagnoses ± SD per group