Demographic comparisons of patients with splenic injuries
| No intervention | Urgent or unplanned OR/IR for liver or spleen injury* | P value† | |
| Age | 39.3±17.5 | 41.4±16 | 0.51 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 67 | 20 | 0.4 |
| Female | 36 | 15 | |
| ISS | 22.1±14.0 | 26.7±15.5 | 0.12 |
| Shock index | 0.80±0.23 | 0.84±0.23 | 0.4 |
| GCS | 13.5±3.5 | 12.9±4.4 | 0.44 |
| Admission Hb (mg/dL) | 12.8±1.6 | 11.9±2.3 | 0.06 |
| Liver grade | 2.2±1.2 | 3±1.3 | 0.07 |
| Spleen grade | 2±1.1 | 3.5±1.4 | <0.001 |
| Mortality | |||
| Lived | 100 | 32 | 0.16 |
| Died | 3 | 3 | |
| No of Hbs drawn | 9.2±8.1 | 10±8.4 | 0.69 |
| Change in Hb | 3.7±2.5 | 3.5±2.3 | 0.71 |
| Units transfused | 1±2 | 3±6 | 0.09 |
| ICU LOS | 4.64±7.3 | 5.9±6.8 | 0.42 |
| Hospital LOS | 8.4±7.3 | 8.7±6.8 | 0.92 |
*20 patients underwent emergent exploratory laparotomy, 15 underwent emergent angiography, 3 patients underwent exploratory laparotomy with planned IR afterwards.
†P value results from Student’s t-test for continuous variables and Pearson’s χ2 for categorical variables.
GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; ICU, intensive care unit; ISS, injury severity score; LOS, length of stay.