Clinical Study
Efficiency Analysis of Direct Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Elderly Patients with Blunt Traumatic Hemothorax without an Initial Thoracostomy
Table 2
Comparison of patient characteristics and demographics between the 2 groups.
| ā | Direct VATS without tube thoracostomy in ED (14) group 1 | Tube thoracostomy in ED (64) group 2 | |
| Age | 74.79, SD = 7.14 | 75.31, SD = 7.76 | 0.432 | Gender (male) | 8 (57.1%) | 56 (87.5%) | 0.007 | Number of fractured ribs | 5.57, SD = 1.65 | 5.75, SD = 2.78 | 0.753 | Flail chest | 5 (35.7%) | 23 (35.9%) | 0.987 | Pulmonary contusion score | 5.00, SD = 1.92 | 3.86, SD = 1.72 | 0.055 | Acute respiratory failure in 48 hours after trauma | 2 (14.3%) | 13 (20.3%) | 0.604 | Concomitant with pneumothorax | 4 (28.6%) | 46 (71.9%) | 0.002 | AIS chest | 3.21, SD = 0.43 | 3.45, SD = 0.59 | 0.090 | AIS head | 0.71, SD = 1.07 | 1.08, SD = 1.40 | 0.288 | AIS abdomen | 0.79, SD = 0.98 | 0.22, SD = 0.63 | 0.054 | AIS extremity | 2.14, SD = 0.77 | 1.19, SD = 0.99 | 0.001 | ISS | 18.43, SD = 4.85 | 18.38, SD = 8.07 | 0.974 | Receiving VATS | 14 (100%) | 30 (46.9%) | ā | Time from trauma to VATS (days) | 3.57, SD = 0.94 | 5.97, SD = 3.43 | 0.001 |
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