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Table 2 Prehospital TI stratified by GCS score

From: Prehospital and emergency department airway management of severe penetrating trauma in Sweden during the past decade

Characteristic

3–8, n = 182

9–12, n  = 33

13–15, n  = 340

n

TI, n  = 791

no TI, n  = 1031

n

TI, n  = 71

no TI, n  = 261

n

TI, n  = 61

no TI, n = 3341

First blood pressure (mmHg)

81

0 (0, 0)

112 (0, 136)

19

110 (100, 150)

96 (81, 114)

247

100 (100, 130)

120 (100, 139)

Unknown

 

30

71

 

2

12

 

3

90

First blood pressure (RTS)

182

  

33

  

340

  

no carotid

 

11 (41%)

45 (79%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

only carotid

 

5 (19%)

3 (5.3%)

 

2 (100%)

2 (25%)

 

0 (0%)

3 (4.2%)

femoral

 

2 (7.4%)

2 (3.5%)

 

0 (0%)

2 (25%)

 

1 (33%)

2 (2.8%)

weak radial

 

5 (19%)

5 (8.8%)

 

0 (0%)

2 (25%)

 

0 (0%)

27 (38%)

clear radial

 

4 (15%)

2 (3.5%)

 

0 (0%)

2 (25%)

 

2 (67%)

40 (56%)

Respiratory rate (RTS)

149

  

29

  

316

  

0

 

48 (75%)

55 (65%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1–9

 

4 (6.2%)

3 (3.5%)

 

1 (20%)

1 (4.2%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

10–29

 

9 (14%)

23 (27%)

 

3 (60%)

12 (50%)

 

4 (80%)

244 (78%)

 > 29

 

3 (4.7%)

4 (4.7%)

 

1 (20%)

11 (46%)

 

1 (20%)

67 (22%)

Unknown

 

15

18

 

2

2

 

1

23

30-day mortality

182

  

33

  

340

  

Dead

 

65 (82%)

82 (80%)

 

3 (43%)

5 (19%)

 

1 (17%)

13 (3.9%)

Alive

 

13 (16%)

20 (19%)

 

4 (57%)

21 (81%)

 

5 (83%)

316 (95%)

Unknown

 

1 (1.3%)

1 (1.0%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

 

0 (0%)

5 (1.5%)

  1. 1Median (IQR); n/N (%). Abbreviations: GCS = Glasgow coma scale, IQR = interquartile range, RTS = revised trauma score, TI = tracheal intubation