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Table 1 Study population and missions characteristics. Data are expressed as numbers and frequencies for categorical variables and medians and interquartile ranges (25th to 75th percentile). [] = missing values

From: Prehospital management of burns requiring specialized burn centre evaluation: a single physician-based emergency medical service experience

 

Study group

n = 86 (100%)

TBSA < 20%

n = 55 (64%)

TBSA ≥20%

n = 31 (36%)

p-value

Age (years) [0]

26 (12–51)

23 (3–50)

39 (20–58)

0.031*

Gender male, n (%) [0]

63 (73)

43 (78)

20 (65)

0.169

Weight (kg), median [11]

65 (20–81)

62 (14–88)

67 (60–75)

0.253

Injury context, n (%) [0]:

 - Domestic

50 (58)

33 (60)

17 (55)

0.641

 - Work

18 (21)

11 (20)

7 (23)

0.778

 - Leisure

6 (7)

5 (9.1)

1 (3)

0.305

 - Others

11 (13)

5 (9.1)

6 (19)

0.171

Facial burn, n (%) [0]

52 (60)

29 (53)

23 (74)

0.051

Inhalation injury, n (%) [0]

35 (41)

15 (27)

20 (65)

0.001*

Carbon monoxide intoxication, n (%) [0]

4 (4.7)

0

4 (13)

0.006*

Type of PEMS, n (%) [0]:

 - Ground

35 (41)

23 (42)

12 (39)

0.381

 - Helicopter

47 (55)

32 (58)

15 (48)

0.778

 - Both

4 (4.7)

0

4 (13)

0.006*

Time intervals (minutes), median [0]:

 - Response

15 (9–21)

15 (10–21)

13 (9–20)

0.342

 - On-scene

19 (13–30)

16 (11–22)

28 (17–42)

< 0.001*

 - Transport

11 (7–17)

11 (6–18)

10 (7–16)

0.790

 - Prehospital treatment

33 (22–45)

29 (19–39)

45 (24–56)

0.003*

NACA score, median [0]

4 (3–5)

4 (3–4)

5 (4–5)

< 0.001*