Table 4

Death rate before ICU discharge (within 30 days) according to pre-hospital management and selected characteristics (exclusion of 74 patients with cardiac arrest in the pre-hospital phase)

Number of deaths (%) by pre-hospital management

Total

Non-SMUR

n = 190

SMUR

n = 2439

P-value

All deaths

436 (17%)

29 (15%)

407 (17%)

0.61

First hospital admission

General hospital (n = 642)

107 (17%)

22 (19%)

85 (16%)

0.52

University hospital (n = 1,987)

329 (17%)

7 (10%)

322 (17%)

0.11

Delay to hospital admission

<1 (n = 413)

68 (16%)

14 (16%)

54 (17%)

0.87

1 to 3 (n = 1,874)

309 (16%)

12 (14%)

297 (17%)

0.55

≥3 (n = 342)

59 (17%)

3 (18%)

56 (17%)

1

Delay to ICU admission

<1 (n = 186)

27 (15%)

3 (10%)

24 (15%)

0.77

1 to 3 (n = 1,462)

245 (17%)

3 (9%)

242 (17%)

0.23

≥3 (n = 886)

153 (17%)

23 (19%)

130 (17%)

0.55

GCS

<8 (n = 775)

279 (36%)

10 (38%)

269 (36%)

0.79

8 to 13 (n = 566)

76 (13%)

7 (20%)

69 (13%)

0.30

≥14 (n = 1,213)

73 (6%)

10 (11%)

63 (6%)

0.032

Injury Severity Score

<25 (n = 1,068)

61 (6%)

13 (12%)

48 (5%)

0.002

25 to 34 (n = 992)

192 (19%)

14 (20%)

178 (19%)

0.89

≥35 (n = 569

183 (32%)

2 (14%)

181 (33%)

0.24

Analysis performed among 2,629 patients without cardiac arrest during the pre-hospital phase. GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; OR, odds ratio; SMUR, Service Mobile d'Urgences et de Réanimation

Yeguiayan et al. Critical Care 2011 15:R34   doi:10.1186/cc9982