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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and injury circumstances of deployment-injured U.S. service members (June 2009August 2012) 1

From: Biofilms and persistent wound infections in United States military trauma patients: a case–control analysis

Characteristics

SSTI Case Patients2(N = 25)

SSTI Control Patients2(N = 60)

Demographics, no. (%)

  

 Age, median (IQR)

22.7 (21.6, 25.5)

23.3 (21.3, 26.5)

 Male

25 (100)

56 (93.3)

 Enlisted

24 (96.0)

53 (88.3)

 Military operation

  

  Operation Iraqi Freedom

0

2 (3.3)

  Operation enduring Freedom

25 (100)

53 (88.3)

  Unknown

0

5 (8.3)

 Branch of service

  

  Marine

11 (44.0)

25 (41.6)

  Army

12 (48.0)

26 (43.3)

  Air Force/Navy

2 (8.0)

5 (8.3)

Injury circumstance and severity

  

 Blast injury, no. (%)

24 (96.0)

50 (83.3)

 LRMC ISS, median (IQR)

24 (14, 29)

21 (17, 29)

Units of PRBC transfused within 1st 24 hours, median (IQR)

34 (16, 83)

18 (9, 33)

  1. IQR-interquartile range; ISS-injury severity score; LRMC-Landstuhl Regional Medical Center; PRBC-packed red blood cells plus whole blood; SSTI-skin and soft-tissue infections; U.S.-United States.
  2. 1Data are on a per patient basis.
  3. 2Eight patients with multiple infected wounds were utilized as both cases and controls.