From: No further incidence of sepsis after splenectomy for severe trauma: a multi-institutional experience of the trauma registry of the DGU with 1,630 patients
Time period
N
ISS
Mortality (%)
Splenectomy (%)
1993-2000
535
40.3
27.3
51.2
2001-2003
641
39.1
22.5
47.4
2004-2005
453
37.0
20.3
39.6