Body composition parameters in initial CT imaging of mechanically ventilated trauma patients: Single-centre observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Body composition parameters provide relevant prognostic significance in critical care cohorts and cancer populations. Published results regarding polytrauma patients are inconclusive to date. The goal of this study was to analyse the role of body composition parameters in severely injured trauma patients.

Methods

All consecutive patients requiring emergency tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation before initial computed tomography (CT) at a level-1 trauma centre over a 12-year period (2008-2019) were reanalysed. The analysis included CT-derived body composition parameters based upon whole-body trauma CT as prognostic variables for 30-day mortality, intensive care unit length of stay (ICU LOS) and mechanical ventilation duration.

Results

Four hundred

SUBMITTER: Meyer HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634470 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature