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Table 1 Clinical attributes for patients with and without NIV

From: Utilization of non-invasive ventilation before prehospital emergency anesthesia in trauma – a cohort analysis with machine learning

Attribute

Value

NIV (n = 333)

No NIV (n = 659)

p

Decision tree model and logistic regression

Auscultation

obstruction/gasping/apnea

bronchial spasm

rhonchus

other

normal

2%

47%

4%

1%

47%

13%

1%

7%

4%

76%

< 0.01*

< 0.01*

0.1

< 0.01*

< 0.01*

Head injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

24%/6%

23%/47%

38%/4%

12%/45%

< 0.01*/0.2

< 0.01*/0.5

Age

years

52 [50–54]

57 [55–60]

< 0.01*

Heart rate

/min

90.1

[87.9–92.2]

89.2

[87.1–91.4]

0.5

Respiratory rate

/min

15

[15 to 15]

14 [12 to 18]

< 0.01*

Oxygen saturation

%

93.4

[92.7–94.1]

94.7

[93.9–95.5]

< 0.01*

Logistic regression only

Face injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

76%/7%

13%/4%

74%/5%

11%/ 9%

0.6/0.3

0.4/<0.01*

Cervical spine injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

94%/1%

4%/1%

87%/3%

5%/4%

< 0.01*/0.1

0.5/<0.01*

Thoracic/lumbar spine injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

92%/1%

3%/4%

88%/2%

6%/4%

0.04*/0.4

0.03*/0.8

Thoracic injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

68%/2%

12%/18%

69%/2%

10%/18%

0.7/0.9

0.4/0.8

Abdominal injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

85%/1%

3%/11%

85%/1%

5%/8%

0.9/0.5

0.2/0.3

Pelvic injury

none/mild

moderate/severe

84%/2%

3%/12%

83%/2%

6%/10%

0.6/0.8

0.06/0.4

Injury of the soft parts

none/mild

moderate/severe

90%/5%

4%/1%

88%/3%

4%/5%

0.3/0.2

0.9/<0.01*

PES

(1–4)

2 (1 to 2)

2 (1 to 2)

0.02*

GCS

 

15 (13 to 15)

15 (14 to 15)

0.08

Heart rate

/min

90.1

[87.9–92.2]

89.2

[87.1–91.4]

0.5

Systolic blood pressure

mmHg

138

[135–141]

137

[134–140]

0.6

Pain level

0 (no pain) − 10

4 (0 to 7)

5 (2 to 8)

< 0.01*

Shock index

 

0.68 [0.65–0.71]

0.7

[0.67–0.73]

0.3

  1. Abbreviations: PES, pre-emergency status with 1 = healthy to 4 = morbibund; GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; NIV, non-invasive ventilation; results given as percentage, median with interquartile range in parenthesis (respiratory rate) or mean with standard deviation (others); *statistically significant (p < 0.05)