The aim of this study was to evaluate the mechanism of high-energy blunt trauma, age and gender of patients, severity of regional and multiple injury, ventilation time, length of stay in intensive care unit and in-hospital stay, in-hospital complications, and treatment outcome. Materials and methods. Data on 159 patients with severe multiple injuries, meeting inclusion criteria, were collected prospectively and evaluated retrospectively. Results. The mean age of multiple trauma patients was 43.9±1.4 years; males were injured 2.5 times more often than females (P<0.001). More than half (66.7%) of patients were 17–64-year-old males. Majority (83%) of all patients were injured in motor vehicle crashes, and 52.2% of these patients were pedestrians. The mean Injury Severity Score was 29.5±0.8, and severe (Abbreviated Injury Scale score of 3 and more) injuries of extremities, head, and chest made up 69.1% of all injuries. The mean ventilation time, mean length of stay in intensive care unit, and mean in-hospital stay were 5.5±0.7, 7.0±0.8, and 23.6±1.6 days, respectively. Acute lung complications were the most common (25.2%). Systemic inflammatory response syndrome developed in 7.5% of patients, and sepsis in 3.8% of patients. More than one-fifth (20.8%) of polytrauma patients died. Conclusions. Working-age male pedestrians (17–64 years old) made up two-thirds of all polytrauma patients. Severe injuries of extremities, head, and chest were present in 69.1% of all cases. Lung complications were the most common.
Objective. To evaluate the patients functional outcome and pain control after resection of metastatic femoral tumors. Material and methods. A prospective randomized clinical study was conducted, which included 26 cases of metastatic tumors of the femur with an associated pathologic fracture. These selected cases were randomly divided into two groups based upon the using of methylmethacrylate cement in fracture fixation. Group 1 (n=13) included all cases where the fractures were treated with bone cement augmentation. Group 2 (n=13) included all cases where the fractures were treated without bone cement augmentation. Functional outcome was evaluated according the American Musculoskeletal Tumor Society system. Results. Good and excellent pain control was achieved in 61.5%, satisfactory in 38.5% of all cases in the Group 1 versus 15.5% (P=0.015) and 69% (χ2=2.4762; P=0.115) of all cases in the Group 2. Functional outcome after femoral metastasis resection and pathologic fracture fixation was significantly better in the Group 1. Total lower extremity function of full normal function was 67% in the Group 1 versus 49% in the Group 2 (P<0.05). We did not observe significant difference between patients’ postoperative survival in the groups (P>0.05). The postoperative durability of stable pathologic fracture fixation was shorter in the Group 2 (273.9±51.7 vs. 358.9±116.8 days) comparing with Group 1 (P=0.03). Conclusions. The introduction of bone cement as the adjunct to the pathologic femoral fracture fixation significantly improved the clinical our study results: we achieved better functional outcome and better pain control.
1 Kauno medicinos universiteto Ortopedijos ir traumatologijos klinika, ĮvadasSkeleto kaulų destrukciją suaugusiesiems dažniau-siai sukelia piktybinių navikų metastazės (1). Daliai pacientų metastazinis kaulų pažeidimas yra pirmasis onkologinės ligos klinikinis simptomas (1). Apie 70-80 proc. visų pirmą kartą diagnozuotų piktybinių navikų metastazuoja į kaulus (2, 3). Pagrindiniai metastazių židiniai yra priešinės liaukos, krūties, plaučių, inkstų pirminiai piktybiniai navikai (1). Pirminiai navikai, kaip ir tolimosios jų metastazės, diagnozuojami vyresnio amžiaus žmonėms, kai žmogus be onkologinės ligos serga viena ar keliomis lėtinėmis ligomis, kurios sunkina ir taip sudėtingą tokių pacientų gydymą. Todėl, planuojant chirurginį gydymą, būtina siekti, kiek galima greičiau fiksuoti patologinį kaulo lūžį ir pašalinti skausmo sindromą, užtikrinti greitą pažeistos galūnės mobilumą ir funkcijos atsikūrimą, įvertinus klinikinę būklę parinkti optimalų chirurginio gydymo metodą, kurį naudojat galima išvengti didelių operacinių pjūvių, ilgos operacijos trukmės bei ilgalaikio stacionarinio gydymo, užtikrinti tokiems pacientams visavertę slaugą (4).Tyrimo tikslas. Perspektyviosios atsitiktinių imčių studijos metu įvertinti kaulų cemento įtaką skausmo kontrolei ir operuotos rankos funkcijos atsikūrimui pacientams, kuriems nustatyta metastazinė žastikaulio pažaida ir patologinis lūžis. MetodikaAtlikta atsitiktinių imčių perspektyvioji studija. Joje dalyvavo 24 onkologine liga sergantys pacientai, kuriems įvyko žastikaulio nesąnarinis patologinis lū-žis. Visi tiriamieji 2004-2008 m. gydyti Kauno medicinos universiteto klinikų Ortopedijos ir traumatologijos bei Mišriųjų traumų skyriuose. Į studiją įtraukti pacientai, kuriems rentgenologiškai ir kliniškai diagnozuotas piktybinis navikas su metastazine žas-tikaulio pažaida ir įvykusiu patologiniu lūžiu, navikinė kaulo pažaida patvirtinta histologiškai. Pacientai 18 metų ir vyresni, kurie, iki įvykstant kaulo patologiniam
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