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Table 2 Patients’ characteristics

From: External validation of 5A score model for predicting in-hospital mortality among the accidental hypothermia patients: JAAM-Hypothermia study 2018–2019 secondary analysis

Characteristics

n = 1139

Age

79.0 (68.0, 87.0)

Sex (men)

625 (55%)

Primary cause

 Alcohol

50 (4.4%)

 Disease

566 (50%)

 Drowning

31 (2.7%)

 Drug

25 (2.2%)

 Other

263 (23%)

 Outdoor

6 (0.5%)

 Trauma

114 (10%)

 Unknown

84 (7.4%)

Setting

 Indoor

843 (74%)

 Outdoor

263 (23%)

 Unknown

33 (2.9%)

ADL disturbance

251 (22%)

Vital signs on arrival

 Cardiac arrest on hospital arrival

101 (8.9%)

 BT

30.9 (28.2, 33.4)

 SBP

117 (87, 144)

 HR

70 (50, 88)

 GCS

10.5 (7.0, 13.0)

Blood test result

 pH

7.29 (7.18, 7.35)

 Alb (estimated)

3.54 (3.23, 3.77)

Rewarming procedure

 Blanket

419 (37%)

 Forced warm air

596 (52%)

 Heating pad

12 (1.1%)

 VAECMO

35 (3.1%)

 HD/CHDF

10 (0.9%)

 Intravascular catheter

19 (1.7%)

  1. Continuous variables are described as median and interquartile range and categorical variables are number and percentage
  2. BT body temperature, SBP systolic blood pressure, HR heart rate, GCS Glasgow Coma Scale, Alb serum albumin, VAECMO veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, HD hemodialysis, CHDF continuous hemodialysis and filtration