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Table 5 Organ failure, sepsis, and mortality rates are dependent on thoracic trauma severity

From: Thoracic trauma severity contributes to differences in intensive care therapy and mortality of severely injured patients: analysis based on the TraumaRegister DGU®

 

Controls

AIS-2

AIS-3

AIS-4

AIS-5/6

Multiple organ failurea

625 (19.3%)

268 (20.4%)

1171 (22.5%)

1107 (30.7%)

534 (42.4%)

Respiratory failurea

450 (13.9%)

231 (17.6%)

1130 (21.7%)

1157 (32.1%)

506 (40.3%)

Sepsisa

231 (7.1%)

107 (8.2%)

477 (9.1%)

411 (11.4%)

203 (16.0%)

Early mortality

254 (5.2%)

44 (2.2%)

276 (3.4%)

436 (8.0%)

491 (21.9%)

Hospital mortality

418 (8.6%)

93 (4.7%)

561 (7.0%)

687 (12.6%)

635 (28.4%)

  1. Number of patients and percentage within the respective cohort of thoracic trauma severity are shown
  2. Early mortality: death within 24 h after hospital admission
  3. aParameter available only for patients documented with the standard form (n = 16,793; missing data in 13%); therefore, total patient numbers vary