Clinical Study
Outcome of Concurrent Occult Hemothorax and Pneumothorax in Trauma Patients Who Required Assisted Ventilation
Table 1
Comparison of patients with chest tube versus no-chest tube.
| | | Overall | No-chest tube | Chest tube | value | | ( = 56) | = 41 (%) | = 15 (%) |
| | Age (mean ± SD) | 35.8 ± 12.9 | 36 ± 12.7 | 35.3 ± 14.1 | 0.85 | | Males . (%) | 55 (98.2) | 41 (100%) | 14 (93.3) | 0.09 | | Mechanism of injury . (%) | | | | 0.13 | | Motor vehicle crash | 25 (44.6) | 20 (48.8) | 5 (33.3) | | | Fall from height | 16 (26.8) | 13 (31.7) | 3 (20) | | | Pedestrian | 10 (17.9) | 6 (14.6) | 4 (26.7) | | | Stab | 1 (1.8) | 1 (2.4) | 0 (0) | | | Other | 4 (7.1) | 1 (2.4) | 3 (20) | | | Lung contusion . (%) | 47 (83.9) | 33 (80.5) | 14 (93.3) | 0.25 | | Number of fractured ribs (median; range) | 4 (1–7) | 4 (1–6) | 4 (1–7) | 0.59 | | Hemothorax thickness (median; range) | 10 (1–40) | 9 (1–21) | 13 (1–40) | 0.04 | | Pneumothorax thickness (median; range) | 10.5 (2–80) | 10 (2–70) | 12 (2–80) | 0.12 | | Injury severity score (mean ± SD) | 24.4 ± 8.7 | 24.3 ± 9.5 | 24.9 ± 6.5 | 0.79 | | Chest AIS (mean ± SD) | 3 ± 2.7 | 2.98 ± 0.27 | 2.93 ± 0.25 | 0.60 | | Surgical procedures* . (%) | 19 (33.9) | 17 (41.5) | 2 (13.3) | 0.04 | | Ventilatory days (median; range) | 3 (1–21) | 2 (1–21) | 6 (1–20) | 0.02 | | Hospital length of stay (median; range) | 18 (3–90) | 17 (3–90) | 18 (5–90) | 0.42 | | Ventilator-associated pneumonia . (%) | 16 (28.6) | 12 (29.3) | 4 (26.7) | 0.84 | | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome . (%) | 9 (16.1) | 3 (7.3) | 6 (40) | 0.003 | | Mortality . (%) | 4 (7.1) | 2 (4.9) | 2 (13.3) | 0.28 |
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Orthopedic, maxillofacial, or neurosurgery.
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