Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury over a Two-Year Period at St Paul’s Hospital Millenium Medical College and AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

Table 3

Management and complications of patients with abdominal injury presented to SPHHMC/AaBET hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January 2018 to December 2019.

Variable	Variable	Blunt	Penetrating	Total	%
Management	Conservative	26	8	34	20.6%
	Surgical	54	77	131	79.4%
Transfusion	Yes	46	30	76	46.1%
	No	34	55	89	53.9%
Organ injured of operated patients	Spleen	30	8	38	23%
	Colon	8	22	30	18.2%
	Small bowel	7	20	27	16.4%
	Liver	13	10	23	13.9%
	Diaphragm	6	11	17	10.3%
	Stomach	3	12	15	9.1%
	Retroperitoneal hematoma	5	6	11	6.7
	Kidney	6	3	9	5.5%
	Omentum	0	4	4	2.4%
	Pancreas	2	0	2	1.2%
	Mesentery	1	1	2	1.2%
	Rectum	0	2	2	1.2%
Complication	Shock	11	9	20	12.1%
	Peritonitis	8	10	18	10.9%
	HAP	6	3	7	4.3%
	Post op intra abdominal collection	4	1	5	3.0%
	SSI	2	2	4	2.4%
	ARDS	2	0	2	1.2%
	Wound dehiscence	0	1	1	0.6%
	Aspiration pneumonia	0	1	1	0.6%
	UTI	0	2	1	0.6%
	Intussusceptions	1	0	1	0.0%