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Table 5 Deaths directly attributed to pelvic fractures.

From: Patients with pelvic fractures due to falls: A paradigm that contributed to autopsy-based audit of trauma in Greece

 

N

%

PFx group.

209

100

Patients with PFx AIS ≤ 3 in severity who were excluded.

154

73.7

Remaining patients with PFx AIS4 and AIS5 in severity.

55

26.3

Remaining patients without any, other than PFx injury of AIS ≥ 4 in

severity, in any other AIS anatomic region.

6

2.9

Post-injury survival time ≤ 48 h.

6

2.9

Patients without any injuries listed in Table 1, which denote a potential cause of major haemorrhage other than those related to PFx.

6

2.9

  1. PFx: pelvic fracture; AIS: Abbreviated Injury Scale (the scale of injury severity ranges from 1 to 6, with 1 being minor, 2 moderate, 3 serious, 4 severe, 5 critical, and 6 an unsurvivable injury).