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Table 1 Demographic and pre-hospital characteristics of trauma patients in the ETO and NON-ETO group

From: Pre-hospital emergent intubation in trauma patients: the influence of etomidate on mortality, morbidity and healthcare resource utilization

 

ETO

NON-ETO

p value

n (total)

762

935

 

Male (n,%)

551/762 (72.3)

711/935 (76.0)

0.083

Traffic accident (n,%)

513/709 (72.4)

647/874 (74.0)

0.46

Blunt trauma (n, %)

663/712 (93.1)

837/876 (95.5)

0.037

SBP scene ≤90 mmHg (n,%)

136/689 (19.7)

178/834 (21.3)

0.45

SBP scene (mmHg: mean ± SD;median;n)

118 ± 34;120 (689)

119 ± 35;120 (834)

0.29

HR scene (1/min: mean ± SD;median;n)

98 ± 24; 99 (458)

99 ± 24; 100 (571)

0.19

GCS (points: mean ± SD;median;n)

10 ± 5; 11 (701)

10 ± 5; 12 (839)

0.97

Age (years: mean ± SD;median;n)

46 ± 20;47 (762)

43 ± 21; 43 (935)

< 0.001

  1. As values were partially missing, the respective population is documented in brackets for continuous variables and in the denominator for categorical variables. SBP = systolic blood pressure; HR = heart rate; GCS = Glasgow Coma Scale
  2. The entries in boldface give the number of patients in the column