Skip to main content

Table 4 Pavement group survivor vs non-survivor comparison

From: “Streets of Fire” revisited: contact burns

Parameters

Pavement/asphalt/rock

P value

Status

Alive

Deada

Number (%)

212 (94)

13 (6)

Age (years)

56 (1–97)

71 (35–94)

0.2

Sex (male/female)

148/64

6/7

% TBSA

4 (1–27)

10 (2–30)

0.01

Ethanol levels (mg/dl)

151 (24–395)

115 (24–205)

0.4

ISS

1 (1–34)

4 (1–16)

0.79

GCS

15 (3–15)

10 (3–15)

0.002

Body mass index (kg/m2)

27 (16–66)

31 (17–45)

0.99

Down time (min)

25 (1–150)

Hospital LOS (days)

12 (1–109)

17 (1–37)

0.99

ICU LOS (days)

5 (1–69)

8 (1–24)

0.7

Ventilator (days)

9 (1–58)

6 (1–24)

0.4

Procedure number

5 (0–106)

8 (0–38)

0.99

Hospital charges (US$)

152,598 (8128–5,468,380)

681,537 (49,242–1,490,924)

0.99

Median hospital charges/LOS (US$)

12,717

40,090

Ethnicity, n(%)

 Caucasian

139 (93)

10 (7)

 Hispanic

36 (100)

0

 African American

23 (100)

0

 Native American Indian

9 (82)

2 (18)

 Hawaiian

1 (100)

0

 Asian

1 (100)

0

  1. Data presented as median (range)
  2. % TBSA percent of total body surface area, LOS length of stay, ICU intensive care unit, ISS Injury Severity Score, GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, down time time spent on the ground before rescue, MVC motor vehicle crash
  3. a1 of 27 (4%) MVC cases was a non-survivor and is not included here