Table 2 Incidence of pre-hospital interventions stratified according to trauma severity and in total
ISS 10-15 | ISS 16-24 | ISS > 24 | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention | ALS only (n = 38) | PHAT (n = 31) | p | ALS only (n = 47) | PHAT (n = 25) | p | ALS only (n = 31) | PHAT (n = 30) | p | ALS only (n = 116) | PHAT (n = 86) | p |
Nasal airway | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 0.24 | 3 | 3 | 0.70 |
Oral airway | 0 | 1 | 0.45 | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 2 | 3 | 0.67 | 5 | 5 | 0.75 |
Endotrach. intubation | 0 | 0 | - | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 5 | 12 | 0.038 | 8 | 14 | 0.034 |
Neck-immob. | 32 | 27 | 0.74 | 32 | 20 | 0.28 | 25 | 21 | 0.33 | 89 | 68 | 0.69 |
Spine board | 30 | 23 | 0.64 | 26 | 17 | 0.30 | 24 | 18 | 0.14 | 80 | 58 | 0.82 |
Immob. of extremity | 2 | 5 | 0.23 | 1 | 2 | 0.28 | 2 | 4 | 0.43 | 5 | 11 | 0.027 |
Crystalline fluids | 13 | 15 | 0.23 | 14 | 11 | 0.23 | 19 | 19 | 0.87 | 46 | 45 | 0.074 |
Colloid fluids | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 0.35 | 0 | 2 | 0.24 | 0 | 3 | 0.076 |
Hypertonic solution | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 0.49 | 0 | 1 | 0.24 |