Source | |
Trauma registry, n (%) | 131 (94%) |
Medical examiner, n (%) | 8 (6%) |
Year injured | |
2013, n (%) | 27 (19%) |
2014, n (%) | 27 (19%) |
2015, n (%) | 22 (16%) |
2016, n (%) | 28 (20%) |
2017, n (%) | 35 (25%) |
Demographics | |
Age, years, median (IQR) | 32 (25–50) |
Male gender, n (%) | 118 (85%) |
Mechanism | |
Penetrating/ballistic, n (%) | 54 (39%) |
Penetrating/non-ballistic, n (%) | 11 (8%) |
Blunt, n (%) | 74 (53%) |
Injury sites | |
Upper extremity, n (%) | 54 (39%) |
Lower extremity, n (%) | 85 (61%) |
Injury types | |
Likely need for tourniquet or advanced hemostatics, n (%) | 77 (55%) |
Probably no need for tourniquet or advanced hemostatics, n (%) | 62 (45%) |
Injury severity* | |
Injury severity score, median (IQR) | 14 (9.0–20.5) |
Injury severity score >15, n (%) | 67 (48%) |
Outcome | |
Prehospital death, n (%) | 8 (6%) |
Inhospital death, n (%) | 18 (13%) |
Survived, n (%) | 113 (81%) |
*trauma registry patients only.