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Table 4 Blood transfusion, sepsis and mortality analyses of studied splenic injured patients.

From: No further incidence of sepsis after splenectomy for severe trauma: a multi-institutional experience of the trauma registry of the DGU with 1,630 patients

 

Unit

Splenectomy

n = 758

Non-Splenectomy

n = 872

PRBC

units

8.5

5.0

> 10 PRBC

%

31.9

19.5

RR ≤ 90 mmHg (ER)

%

31.7

25.9

Hb < 9 mg/dl

%

42.6

31.7

Organ failure

%

53.0

45.6

Multiple Organ Failure

%

33.4

29.0

Sepsis

%

18.3

18.4

Mortality within 24 hours

%

14.1

13.5

  

n = 711

n = 805

Mortality

%

25.0

21.5

RISC

%

26.7

23.0

SMR

 

0.94

0.94