Outcome of Chest Trauma Patients in One Year in Sohag University Hospital

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Chest Trauma Patients
• Interventions: Procedure: chest tube - emergency thoracotomy

• Registration Number: NCT05960409
• Lead Sponsor: Sohag University

Brief Summary

The history of chest trauma is as old as that of man himself. One of the earliest writings about chest trauma is found in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in 3000 bc.

Over the last century, there has been considerable reduction in the mortality of chest trauma owing to improved pre-operative care, availability of positive pressure ventilation, increasing availability of antibiotics, improvement of radiological techniques and improved lung toilets measures etc.

Chest trauma implies trauma to any or combination of different thoracic structures, which can be divided into 4 anatomical regions i.e. the chest wall, the pleural space, the lung parenchyma, and the mediastinum.

Trauma is one of the top ranking causes of accidental or unnatural deaths. Chest trauma is a significant source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. overall, it accounts for 25%-30% of all trauma related deaths and is implicated in an additional 25% of patients, who died from injuries.

In most cases, blunt chest trauma is by far the commonest and road traffic accidents account for 70%-80% of such injuries. Fire-arm injuries, falling from height, blast, stabs, and various acts of violence are the other causative mechanisms.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2023-07
• Study First Submitted: 2023-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-07-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-07-24
• Study First Posted: 2023-07-25
• Last Update Posted: 2023-07-25
• Study Start: 2023-08
• Primary Completion: 2023-12
• Study Completion: 2023-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• males and females
• adults and children
• isolated chest trauma
• polytraumatized patients
• penetrating chest trauma
• blunt chest trauma

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Exclusion Criteria

• patients presented with cardiac arrest
• patients presented dead
• patients with glasco coma scale 5 or less
• patients with sever abdominal injuries

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
blunt chest trauma patients	chest tube - emergency thoracotomy	patients with chest injuries due to a blunt trauma
polytraumatized patients	chest tube - emergency thoracotomy	patients with multible traumas beside the chest injury
penetrating chest trauma patients	chest tube - emergency thoracotomy	patients with chest injuries due to penetrating trauma
chest trauma only patients	chest tube - emergency thoracotomy	patients with only chest injuries

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
morbidity	12 months	Outcome will be defined as conservative management
mortality	12 months	Outcome will be defined as conservative management

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sohag university Hospital; 🇪🇬 Sohag, Egypt