Physician-Led Thoracic Trauma Management in a Specialist Emergency Care Centre.

ABSTRACT: Falls cause 75% of trauma in patients above 65 years of age, and thoracic trauma is the second commonest injury; rib fractures are the most common thoracic injury. These patients have up to 12% mortality, with 31% developing pneumonias. There is wide variation in care. Northumbria Healthcare has a team of respiratory consultants, physiotherapists, specialist nurses and anesthetists for thoracic-trauma management on a respiratory support unit. With Caldicott approval, basic demographics and clinical outcomes of patients admitted with thoracic trauma between 20 August-21 April were analyzed. A descriptive statistical methodology was applied. A total of 119 patients were identified with a mean age of 71.1 years (range 23-97). Of the 119 patients, 53 were male, 66 females. The main mechanism o

SUBMITTER: Bates-Powell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8709173 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature