Table 1 Patient’s characteristics.

From: The different paradigms of NK cell death in patients with severe trauma

Severe Trauma Patients (n = 18)

Age, median (IQR), y

45 (35–54)

Sex, No. (%)

 Female

8 (44))

 Male

10 (56)

Mechanism of injury, No. (%)

 Traffic accidents

10 (55.6)

 Falls

5 (27.8)

 Crushes

3 (16.6)

 Glasgow Coma Scale score, median (IQR)a

14 (13–15)

 Injury Severity Scoreb Median (IQR)

20.5 (19–21)

  1. IQR inter-quartile range.
  2. aGlasgow Coma Scale score: an important scoring system for measuring the extent of impaired consciousness in trauma patients. Scores range is 3 (patient does not respond to any stimuli, including pain) to 15 (patient’s state of consciousness is at a normal level).
  3. bInjury Severity Score: an established medical score to assess trauma severity with a score range from 0 (no injury) to 75 (maximum injury). The three body systems with the highest AIS score are used to calculate the Injury Severity Score. Each of these three scores are squared and results summed to produce the injury severity score.
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