Stable patients
According to the classification system, 68.2% (45/66) of patients
identified were found to be in a stable condition (JHH-S). The RCT
had 73.33% (121/165) stable patients. Table 1 presents the demographics
and injury severity, injury patterns and the first 24-h transfusions
of the JHH-S and RCT-S patients. The average age and
gender distribution were similar in both stable groups. The JHH-S
patients had markedly lower ISS (15 5 versus 24 8, P < 0.0001)
and slightly lower NISS (24 6 versus 27 9, P = 0.04) than the
RCT-S patients. The AIS scores were similar in all regions excluding
the chest and abdomen, where the JHH-S group scored chest 0.6
1.1 and abdomen 0.1 0.2 compared with the RCT-S with chest
1.75 1.58 and abdomen 1.01 1.45 (both P < 0.0001). The shock
parameters were not presented in the RCT. The JHH-S patients had
mild metabolic acidosis (base deficit (BD) -2.1 2.1, lactate 2.1
1.0). A higher proportion of the JHH stable patients (40%) received
blood transfusion within the first 24 h of presentation to the hospital,
compared with 23% in the RCT (P = 0.026)