Table 3 Concomitant injuries.

From: Baseline predictors of in-hospital mortality after acute traumatic spinal cord injury: data from a level I trauma center

Concomitant injuries

All patients n = 321

Survivors

n = 301

Deceased

n = 20

p-value

Skull fracture

24 (7.5%)

24 (8.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0.381

Sternal rib fracture

102 (31.8%)

97 (32.2%)

5 (25.0%)

0.671

Upper extremity fracture

48 (15.0%)

47 (15.6%)

1 (5.0%)

0.330

Lower extremity fracture

43 (13.4%)

43 (14.3%)

0 (0.0%)

0.088

Traumatic brain injury

73 (22.7%)

70 (23.3%)

3 (15.0%)

0.582

Vertebral arteria injury*

32 (10.0%)

29 (9.7%)

3 (15.0%)

0.436

Chest injury

91 (28.3%)

89 (29.6%)

2 (10.0%)

0.104

Abdominal trauma

27 (8.4%)

26 (8.6%)

1 (5.0%)

1.000

Large vessel injury

11 (3.4%)

11 (3.7%)

0 (0.0%)

1.000

  1. Absolute (N) and relative frequencies (%) of concomitant injuries. *There is one missing value for vertebral arteria injury in the survivor group, because radiologic analysis was impossible.
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