Emergency Management of Minor Blunt Thoracic Trauma

Antalya Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thoracic Injuries,

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02494232

antalya TRH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Thoracic traumas are frequent causes of emergency department admissions and the third most common cause of death from trauma. Although emergency management of major thoracic traumas that have high mortality and morbidity were discussed and well-understood in detail in the literature, there are limited information regarding diagnosis, emergency management, treatment and follow-up after discharge of patients with minor blunt thoracic traumas.

The investigators aimed to investigate demographic data, physical examination findings, and the relationship between lung injury, emergency department final diagnosis, hospitalization, discharge and re-admission rates, effects of prescribed analgesics on pain and re-admissions of patients with a pre-diagnosis of minor blunt thoracic trauma on first admission.

Enrollment: 186 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 15
• stable vital signs
• admitted within the first 6 hours after injury

Exclusion criteria

• urgent and urgent triage category

Trial design

186 participants in 1 patient group

minor blunt thoracic trauma patient

Description:

demographic data, physical examination findings