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Table 1 Patient, demographic, prognostic and in-hospital factors in in a cohort of 80,324 strokes and traumatic brain injury

From: The utility of the brain trauma evidence to inform paramedic rapid sequence intubation in out-of-hospital stroke

Characteristic

Patients, No. (%)

Total (n = 80,324)

RSI (n = 1776)

No-RSI (n = 78,548)

Demographic

 Age, mean (SD), years

61.6 (22.5)

52.2 (22.5)

61.8 (24.2)

 Sex

  Male

46,726 (58.1)

1125 (63.3)

45,601 (58.1)

  Female

33,598 (41.8)

651 (36.7)

32,947 (41.6)

Illness

 Haemorrhagic stroke

11,133 (13.9)

531 (29.9)

10,602 (13.5)

 Ischemic stroke

26,754 (33.3)

242 (13.6)

26,512 (33.8)

 Traumatic brain injury

42,437 (52.9)

1003 (56.5)

41,434 (52.8)

Illness severity/comorbidity, mean (SD)

 Elixhauser comorbidity scorea

17.2 (7.0)

17.3 (6.6)

17.2 (7.0)

 Initial Glasgow Coma Scale

13.5 (2.8)

6.4 (3.6)

13.7 (2.5)

Observations, mean (SD)

 Initial pulse rate

85.4 (19.5)

92.9 (28.8)

85.2 (19.2)

 Final pulse rate

82.6 (18.0)

101.5 (22.4)

82.1 (17.6)

 Initial systolic blood pressure

140.6 (31.5)

145.7 (41.8)

140.5 (31.2)

 Final systolic blood pressure

139.3 (28.5)

136.4 (29.7)

139.3 (28.5)

 Initial respiratory rate

17.7 (4.6)

18.3 (8.0)

17.7 (4.5)

 Final respiratory rate

16.9 (4.0)

12.2 (7.5)

17.0 (3.8)

 Initial SPO2

96.1 (5.1)

94.1 (9.6)

96.1 (4.9)

 Final SPO2

97.2 (3.4)

98.5 (4.6)

97.2 (3.3)

Ambulance time intervals, minutes mean (SD)

 Response time

21.1 (23.1)

19.2 (18.9)

21.2 (23.2)

 Scene time

24.3 (99.9)

60.7 (35.0)

23.4 (100.7)

 Transport time

25.6 (21.0)

31.5 (23.5)

25.5 (20.9)

Hospital

 Time in intensive care unit, mean (SD), hours

125.2 (161.3)

156.9 (172.2)

119.4 (158.5)

 Mechanical ventilation in intensive care unit, mean (SD), hours

106.8 (148.9)

117.9 (144.6)

103.8 (150.0)

 Hospital length of stay, mean (SD), days

6.8 (10.2)

13.3 (20.5)

6.6 (9.8)

 Emergency department length of stay mean (SD), minutes

426.1 (318.7)

272.2 (214.8)

430.2 (320.0)

Year

 2008

6497 (8.1)

148 (8.3)

6349 (8.1)

 2009

7435 (9.3)

142 (8.0)

7293 (9.3)

 2010

7834 (9.8)

167 (9.4)

7667 (9.8)

 2011

8614 (10.7)

215 (12.1)

8399 (10.7)

 2012

8293 (10.3)

205 (11.5)

8088 (10.3)

 2013

7962 (9.9)

194 (10.9)

7768 (9.9)

 2014

6416 (8.0)

123 (6.9)

6293 (8.0)

 2015

8581 (10.7)

164 (9.2)

8417 (10.7)

 2016

9101 (11.3)

221 (12.4)

8880 (11.3)

 2017

9591 (11.9)

197 (11.1)

9394 (12.0)

  1. aScaled to avoid negative values