Table 4 Complications in EAC patients treated within 36 h versus later. Comparison is made with a previously described cohort of patients with the same types of fractures managed at the same trauma center

Any complication

66 patients (19.7 %) with 90 complications

44 patients (16.3 %) with 57 complications

22 patients (33.3 %) with 32 complications*

319 patients (22.1 %) with 354 complications

Pneumonia

31 (9.3 %)

22 (8.2 %)

9 (14 %)

118 (8.2 %)

DVT

6 (1.8 %)

6 (2.2 %)

0

92 (6.4 %)

PE

8 (2.4 %)

7 (2.6 %)

1 (1.5 %)

22 (1.5 %)

ARDS

5 (1.5 %)

4 (1.5 %)

1 (1.5 %)

33 (2.3 %)

ARF

6 (1.8 %)

1 (0.37 %)

5 (7.6 %)*

24 (1.7 %)

MOF

2 (0.60 %)

1 (0.37 %)

1 (1.5 %)

5 (0.35 %)

Infection

9 (2.7 %)

6 (2.2 %)

3 (4.5 %)*

12 (0.83 %)

Sepsis

18 (5.4 %)

6 (2.2 %)

12 (18 %)*

33 (2.3 %)

Death

5 (1.5 %)

4 (1.5 %)

1 (1.5 %)

15 (1.0 %)