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A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed
Aims All English major trauma centres (MTCs) offer rib fixation, which the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance indicates in patients with multiple rib fractures or a flail segment; however, the data does not identify the appropriate patients. Our aims were to establish...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10561661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37818507 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44950 |
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author | Shahid, Abbas Turner, Thomas Bukhari, Ali Shaikh, Adil Malik, Asad Alsusa, Hatim Bowdren, Kieran Rutherford, Jill |
author_facet | Shahid, Abbas Turner, Thomas Bukhari, Ali Shaikh, Adil Malik, Asad Alsusa, Hatim Bowdren, Kieran Rutherford, Jill |
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description | Aims All English major trauma centres (MTCs) offer rib fixation, which the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance indicates in patients with multiple rib fractures or a flail segment; however, the data does not identify the appropriate patients. Our aims were to establish improvements in outcomes following rib fixation at our trust and then determine if the rib fixation service has improved. Methods We performed a matched cohort study whereby 32 patients who underwent rib fixation were independently matched with conservatively managed patients. We then performed a retrospective re-audit to compare outcomes with the matched cohort study. The outcomes analysed were mortality, critical care length of stay (LOS) and total hospital LOS. Results Our initial study revealed a 33.4% reduction in mortality in patients over 55 years. There was also a reduction in average total hospital LOS by 4.5 days in patients under 55 years when comparing rib fixation to conservative management. The results also revealed an average of 4.1 days from admission to operation, 12.7 days of critical care LOS and 29.1 days of total hospital LOS. The re-audit showed improvements in all outcomes. Time from admission to fixation was reduced to 2.1 days, critical care LOS was reduced to 7.5 days and total hospital LOS was reduced to 20.7 days. Conclusions Reduced mortality and LOS reinforce evidence that rib fixation improves outcomes. The re-audit shows that patients are identified for fixation sooner, which is important as the evidence has not identified optimal time for fixation. LOS further decreased in our re-audit, which indicates that earlier fixation results in patients avoiding the sequelae of rib fractures. |
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spelling | pubmed-105616612023-10-10 A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed Shahid, Abbas Turner, Thomas Bukhari, Ali Shaikh, Adil Malik, Asad Alsusa, Hatim Bowdren, Kieran Rutherford, Jill Cureus Orthopedics Aims All English major trauma centres (MTCs) offer rib fixation, which the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance indicates in patients with multiple rib fractures or a flail segment; however, the data does not identify the appropriate patients. Our aims were to establish improvements in outcomes following rib fixation at our trust and then determine if the rib fixation service has improved. Methods We performed a matched cohort study whereby 32 patients who underwent rib fixation were independently matched with conservatively managed patients. We then performed a retrospective re-audit to compare outcomes with the matched cohort study. The outcomes analysed were mortality, critical care length of stay (LOS) and total hospital LOS. Results Our initial study revealed a 33.4% reduction in mortality in patients over 55 years. There was also a reduction in average total hospital LOS by 4.5 days in patients under 55 years when comparing rib fixation to conservative management. The results also revealed an average of 4.1 days from admission to operation, 12.7 days of critical care LOS and 29.1 days of total hospital LOS. The re-audit showed improvements in all outcomes. Time from admission to fixation was reduced to 2.1 days, critical care LOS was reduced to 7.5 days and total hospital LOS was reduced to 20.7 days. Conclusions Reduced mortality and LOS reinforce evidence that rib fixation improves outcomes. The re-audit shows that patients are identified for fixation sooner, which is important as the evidence has not identified optimal time for fixation. LOS further decreased in our re-audit, which indicates that earlier fixation results in patients avoiding the sequelae of rib fractures. Cureus 2023-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10561661/ /pubmed/37818507 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44950 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shahid et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Orthopedics Shahid, Abbas Turner, Thomas Bukhari, Ali Shaikh, Adil Malik, Asad Alsusa, Hatim Bowdren, Kieran Rutherford, Jill A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title | A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title_full | A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title_fullStr | A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title_full_unstemmed | A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title_short | A Retrospective Two-Year Review of the Outcomes of Surgical Rib Fixation Following Chest Wall Injury by the Multidisciplinary Chest Wall Injury Group in a Major Trauma Centre and the Change in Outcomes as the Service Has Developed |
title_sort | retrospective two-year review of the outcomes of surgical rib fixation following chest wall injury by the multidisciplinary chest wall injury group in a major trauma centre and the change in outcomes as the service has developed |
topic | Orthopedics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10561661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37818507 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44950 |
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