Does Surgery Reduce the Risk of Complications Among Patients with Multiple Rib Fractures? A Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multiple rib fractures are common in trauma patients, who are prone to trauma-associated complications. Surgical or nonsurgical interventions for the aforementioned conditions remain controversial.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of our study was to perform a meta-analysis to evaluate the clinical prognosis of surgical fixation of multiple rib fractures in terms of (1) hospital-related endpoints (including duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU length of stay [LOS] and hospital LOS), (2) complications, (3) pulmonary function, and (4) pain scores.

Methods

We screened PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomized and prospective studies published before January 2018. Individual effect sizes were standardized; the pooled effect size was calculated usin

SUBMITTER: Liang YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345288 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature