Characteristics of study population (n=139)
| Source | |
| Trauma registry, n (%) | 131 (94%) |
| Medical examiner, n (%) | 8 (6%) |
| Year injured | |
| 2013, n (%) | 27 (19%) |
| 2014, n (%) | 27 (19%) |
| 2015, n (%) | 22 (16%) |
| 2016, n (%) | 28 (20%) |
| 2017, n (%) | 35 (25%) |
| Demographics | |
| Age, years, median (IQR) | 32 (25–50) |
| Male gender, n (%) | 118 (85%) |
| Mechanism | |
| Penetrating/ballistic, n (%) | 54 (39%) |
| Penetrating/non-ballistic, n (%) | 11 (8%) |
| Blunt, n (%) | 74 (53%) |
| Injury sites | |
| Upper extremity, n (%) | 54 (39%) |
| Lower extremity, n (%) | 85 (61%) |
| Injury types | |
| Likely need for tourniquet or advanced hemostatics, n (%) | 77 (55%) |
| Probably no need for tourniquet or advanced hemostatics, n (%) | 62 (45%) |
| Injury severity* | |
| Injury severity score, median (IQR) | 14 (9.0–20.5) |
| Injury severity score >15, n (%) | 67 (48%) |
| Outcome | |
| Prehospital death, n (%) | 8 (6%) |
| Inhospital death, n (%) | 18 (13%) |
| Survived, n (%) | 113 (81%) |
*trauma registry patients only.