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Table 1 Patient characteristic

From: Alcohol and trauma: the influence of blood alcohol levels on the severity of injuries and outcome of trauma patients - a retrospective analysis of 6268 patients of the TraumaRegister DGU®

  

BAL negative

BAL positive

p-value

Male

n (%)

3704 (70.3)

699 (84.0)

<.001

Age (years)

(Mean, SD)

51 ± 22

45 ± 18

<.001

GCS

(Mean, SD)

12.0 ± 4.1

10.8 ± 4.5

<.001

systBP on admission

(Mean, SD)

133 ± 32

125 ± 29

<.001

Hemoglobin (g/dl)

(Mean, SD)

12.9 ± 2.2

13.4 ± 2.1

<.001

INR

(Mean, SD)

1.20 ± 0.54

1.13 ± 0.49

<.001

BE (mmol/l)

(Mean, SD)

−1.8 ± 4.4

−3.9 ± 4.5

<.001

ISS

(Mean, SD)

20.3 ± 12.6

18.9 ± 11.6

.006

NISS

(Mean, SD)

25.3 ± 15.3

24.9 ± 15.9

.27

  1. BAL, Blood Alcohol Levels; systBP, Systolic Blood Pressure; GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; INR, International Normalized Ratio; BE, Base Excess; ISS, Injury Severity Score; NISS, New Injury Severity Score; SD Standard Deviation