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Table 2 Pre-hospital assessment and final diagnosis of IWs for stable and unstable patients

From: Performance of pre-hospital evaluations in ruling out invasive chest stab wounds

 

Stable patients (n = 119)

Unstable patients (n = 34)

Suspicion of supetavrficial wounds (n = 59)

Suspicion of invasive wounds (n = 60)

Superficial wound (n = 58)a

34

18

6

Invasive wound (n = 95)a

25

42

28

  1. Definition: IW Invasive Wound
  2. aDefinitive diagnosis