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Table 7 Logistic regression analysis for factors predicting mortality

From: Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome: ten years’ experience at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Parameters

Univariate

Multivariate

 

P-value

Odds

ratio (OR)

95%CI

P-value

Odds

ratio (OR)

95%CI

 

Lower limit

Upper limit

 

Lower limit

Upper limit

Concomitant head injury (AIS ≥ 3)

0.000

5.516

3.719

8.180

0.000

6.862

2.856

16.490

Analgesia: General/Regional

0.000

3.033

1.773

5.188

0.999

36226116.4

0.000

.

Lung contusion

0.000

16.814

5.179

54.581

0.113

20.648

0.491

868.619

Myocardial contusion

0.000

9.714

5.464

17.272

0.999

0.000

0.000

.

Pneumothorax

0.000

16.584

5.108

53.840

0.108

0.062

0.002

1.848

Associated Surgery

0.000

19.232

10.370

35.667

0.163

0.242

0.033

1.779

Pneumonia

0.000

6.562

3.803

11.325

0.550

0.629

0.138

2.868

Sepsis

0.000

150.000

19.877

1131.967

0.000

568.98

19.49

16613.52

Fluid restriction

0.000

2.804

1.614

4.871

0.969

1.033

0.205

5.191

Chest tube insertion

0.000

29.456

13.891

62.461

0.083

7.061

0.776

64.246

Steroid

0.000

73.750

29.071

187.099

0.999

14989832.828

0.000

.

ISS

0.000

1.221

1.169

1.275

0.000

1.188

1.086

1.300

Hospital stay

0.000

1.006

1.005

1.008

0.058

1.014

0.890

1.028

  1. B Regression coefficient, S.E Standard error, CI Confidence interval