Table 4 Significant predictors of mortality by logistic regression   OR P value Confidence interval Area under ROC curve* Thoracotomy 20 selleck chemicals llc 0.027 1.4-282.4 0.81 IVC ligation 45 0.012 2.28-885.6 0.86 Significant inverse predictors of mortality by logistic regression   OR P value Confidence interval Area under ROC curve* GCS 0.6 0.026 0.46-0.95 0.85 *Area under ROC curve as a measure of model fit. Table 5 GCS as a determinant of mortality by linear regression   Beta coefficient

P value* R2 + GCS -0.07 0.005 0.44 Intercept 1.27     *Inverse relation between GCS and mortality by linear regression. + R-squared as a measure of model fit. Table 6 Mortality by mechanism of injury Mechanism Number Mortality rate* Blunt 1 (6.25%) 0% GSW 9 (56.25%) 44.4% SW 6 (37.5%) 33.3% Total 16 37.5% *P = 0.6 (NS), Kruskal–Wallis analysis of variance rank test. Table 7 Mortality by number of injuries and IVC level of injury Level of injury Number of injuries Number of deaths Mortality rate Infrarenal 4 (25%) 1 25% Pararenal 4 (25%) 1 25% Suprarenal 5 (31.2%) 3 60% Retrohepatic 1 (6.25%) 1 100% Intrapericardial Torin 2 datasheet 2 (12.5%) 0 0%   P value = 0.8

(NS)*   P value = 0.3 (NS)* *Kruskal–Wallis analysis of variance rank test. Discussion Traumatic IVC injuries are a relatively rare event, occurring in only up to 5% of penetrating injuries and only up to 1% of blunt abdominal trauma [8]. Nonetheless, IVC trauma continues to

present a formidable challenge to trauma surgeons, carrying an overall high mortality rate in spite of recent improvements in pre-hospital care, resuscitation upon arrival at a trauma center, diagnostic imaging, and timely surgical care. Our overall mortality rate for IVC trauma (37.5%) is consistent with previous reports of IVC trauma mortality ranging from 21% to 56%, with an overall mortality rate of 43% [1, 5, 7–10, 14, 16–18]. Previous reports have described predictors of mortality to be level of injury, shock on admission, timing of diagnosis to definitive management, blood loss, requirements for blood transfusions, associated injuries, ED thoracotomy, preoperative lactate and base deficits, ISS, and GCS [1, 5, 7–10, 16–18]. In our cohort, we found statistically significant associations with the risk of mortality with hypotension upon arrival at Methane monooxygenase the ER, thoracotomy, operative time, injury severity expressed as ISS, and GCS. There was a trend towards ascending mortality as the level of injury approached the heart, however we were unable to find a statistically significant relation between level of injury and mortality. This is likely due to the small size of our cohort, and the fact that the two patients in our series with intra-perdicardial lesions, both survived. Upon regression analysis, significant predictors of mortality were thoracotomy, IVC ligation as operative management, and GCS.