Table 1 Demographic and injury characteristics of 193 patients associated with treatment remission and failure of PTOa
Demographic data | N = 193 (%) |
|---|---|
 Age (mean [range]) (years) | 50 (16–88) |
 Male sex (no. [%]) | 133 (68.9) |
Comorbidities (no. [%]) | |
 Smoking | 59 (30.5) |
 Intraoperative hyperglycemia | 58 (30.0) |
Occupation (no. [%]) | |
 Farmer | 26 (13.5) |
 Driver (car, motorcycle, truck) | 24 (12.5) |
 Construction/Machine Operation | 44 (22.8) |
 Business | 40 (20.7) |
 Household activities | 59 (30.5) |
Types of injury (no. [%]) | |
 Motor vehicle accident | 110 (57.0) |
 Fall from height (<1m) | 57 (29.5) |
 Football related injury | 3 (1.5) |
 Other falls | 18 (9.6) |
 Other injuries | 8 (4.0) |
 Penetrating injury by a wooden foreign body | 3 (1.5) |
 High-energy injury | 133 (68.9) |
Gustilo & Anderson Classification for open fractures 73 (37.8) | |
 Type-I (no. [%]) | 14 (19.2) |
 Type-II (no. [%]) | 23 (31.5) |
 Type-III (no. [%]) | 36 (49.3) |
 Closed fracture | 120 (62.2) |
 More of one surgical debridement | 77 (39.9) |
 Polytrauma | 46 (23.8) |
American Society of Anesthesiologists score (no. [%]) | |
 ASAb I – II (1 or 2) | 166 (90.7) |
 ASAb III – IV (>2) | 17 (9.3) |
 Intraoperative blood transfusion | 66 (34.2) |
 Duration of surgery (media [range]) (hours) | 2.61 (1–8) |
Infected Fracture Location (no. [%]) | |
 Upper limbs | 44 (22.8) |
 Lower limbs | 154 (79.2) |
 Collarbone | 7 (3.6) |
 Humerus | 12 (6.2) |
 Radius | 13 (6.7) |
 Ulna | 16 (8.2) |
 Hands | 3 (1.5) |
 Femur | 59 (30.5) |
 Knee | 9 (4.6) |
 Tibia | 56 (29) |
 Fibula | 11 (5.7) |
 Foot | 19 (9.8) |