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Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture?
BACKGROUND: Open pelvic fractures are rare but represent a serious clinical problem with high mortality rates. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of open pelvic fractures in our clinic and to compare the results from our patient group with those of closed fractures and with the l...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-018-0793-2 |
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author | Hermans, E. Edwards, M. J. R. Goslings, J. C. Biert, J. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Open pelvic fractures are rare but represent a serious clinical problem with high mortality rates. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of open pelvic fractures in our clinic and to compare the results from our patient group with those of closed fractures and with the literature from the past decade. METHODS: Data of patients older than 16 years of age who were admitted to our hospital with a pelvic fracture between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2014, were analyzed. The collected data were patient demographics, mechanism of injury, RTS, ISS, transfusion requirement during the first 24 h, Gustilo-Anderson and Faringer classification, number and type of interventions complications, mortality, and length of stay. RESULTS: Twenty-four of 492 patients (5% of all pelvic fracture patients) had an open fracture. Their mean age was 36 years, the mean ISS was 31, and the mean number of transfused packed red blood cells was 5.5. These numbers were all significantly higher than in the patients with a closed fracture, although they were comparable to other studies with open fractures. The mortality was 4% in the open group versus 14% in the closed group (p = 0.23). The reported mortality in the literature ranges between 4 and 45%. CONCLUSION: Open pelvic fractures are relatively rare but are a cause of significant morbidity. In this series, we treated patients with open pelvic fractures successfully, with a survival rate of 96%. There was no significant difference in survival rate between open and closed pelvic fractures. Compared with other studies, the mortality in our study was relatively low. |
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spelling | pubmed-58993872018-04-23 Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? Hermans, E. Edwards, M. J. R. Goslings, J. C. Biert, J. J Orthop Surg Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Open pelvic fractures are rare but represent a serious clinical problem with high mortality rates. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of open pelvic fractures in our clinic and to compare the results from our patient group with those of closed fractures and with the literature from the past decade. METHODS: Data of patients older than 16 years of age who were admitted to our hospital with a pelvic fracture between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2014, were analyzed. The collected data were patient demographics, mechanism of injury, RTS, ISS, transfusion requirement during the first 24 h, Gustilo-Anderson and Faringer classification, number and type of interventions complications, mortality, and length of stay. RESULTS: Twenty-four of 492 patients (5% of all pelvic fracture patients) had an open fracture. Their mean age was 36 years, the mean ISS was 31, and the mean number of transfused packed red blood cells was 5.5. These numbers were all significantly higher than in the patients with a closed fracture, although they were comparable to other studies with open fractures. The mortality was 4% in the open group versus 14% in the closed group (p = 0.23). The reported mortality in the literature ranges between 4 and 45%. CONCLUSION: Open pelvic fractures are relatively rare but are a cause of significant morbidity. In this series, we treated patients with open pelvic fractures successfully, with a survival rate of 96%. There was no significant difference in survival rate between open and closed pelvic fractures. Compared with other studies, the mortality in our study was relatively low. BioMed Central 2018-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5899387/ /pubmed/29653551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-018-0793-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hermans, E. Edwards, M. J. R. Goslings, J. C. Biert, J. Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title | Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title_full | Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title_fullStr | Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title_full_unstemmed | Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title_short | Open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
title_sort | open pelvic fracture: the killing fracture? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899387/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29653551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-018-0793-2 |
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