Measurement of Lung Injuries on CT in Trauma Patients
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: S273- Other and unspecified injuries oflung
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/03/063607
- Lead Sponsor
- Christian Medical College, Vellore
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All consecutive patients with blunt trauma admitted under Trauma Services, with CT within 24 hours of admission.
Exclusion Criteria
1 Death within first 48 hours of admission (unless it is isolated chest injury)
2 Intubated due to head injury
3 Non responder and Transient responders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To precisely quantify pulmonary contusion size on CT and develop a severity grading systemTimepoint: Lung contusion measurement done on the CT taken within 24 hours of admission post trauma
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To correlate contusion size & severity with outcomes (such as pneumonia, ARDS, mortality, need for non-invasive ventilation or ventilator use, ICU stay) <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>To develop a severity scale for pulmonary contusion (mild / moderate / severe) <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>To determine the threshold contusion size predicting complications <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>To compare simple visual quantification of pulmonary contusion size with the primary semi-automated CT quantification <br/ ><br>Timepoint: CT done within 24 hours of admission post trauma <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Above mentioned clinical outcomes recorded during the course of the patients hospital stay