• Injury · Sep 2022

    Non-operative management of solid organ injuries in a middle-income country, how does it stack up?

    • Muhamad Izwan Ismail, Nur Suhada Ramli, Jih Huei Tan, Noridayu Mohamed, Yuzaidi Mohamad, and AlwiRizal ImranRIDepartment of General Surgery, Trauma Surgery Unit, Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Jalan Persiaran Abu Bakar Sultan, Johor Bahru 80100, Malaysia; Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Federal Government Administrative Centre, Putrajaya 62514, Malaysia.
    • Department of General Surgery, Trauma Surgery Unit, Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Jalan Persiaran Abu Bakar Sultan, Johor Bahru 80100, Malaysia; Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Federal Government Administrative Centre, Putrajaya 62514, Malaysia. Electronic address: izwanismail99@gmail.com.
    • Injury. 2022 Sep 1; 53 (9): 2992-2997.

    IntroductionThe first trauma surgery unit in Malaysia was established in 2011. After 10 years, we examine our experience in the management, and outcomes of blunt liver, spleen, and kidney injuries.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study of patients with blunt liver, spleen, and kidney injuries in a level 1 trauma centre in Malaysia between January 2018 to June 2021. Patients' characteristics, new injury severity score, organ-specific AAST injury score, type of primary management (operative management [OM], non-operative management [NOM]), causes of failed NOM, management of failed NOM, and outcome of treatment were recorded and analysed.ResultsAmong 448 patients, 83.9% were male and in the working-age range of 15-64 years old (93.5%). Road traffic crashes made up 92.0% of blunt trauma resulting in 65.5% of isolated organ injuries and 34.5% combined injuries. An overwhelming 84.2% of the patients had major trauma (NISS>15). Three hundred and thirty-four patients (74.6%) underwent initial non-operative management. Patients in the OM group showed lower mean GCS scores (p = 0.022) and higher NISS scores (p < 0.001). High-grade liver and kidney injuries were mostly treated with NOM (p < 0.001). In contradistinction, patients with high-grade spleen injuries had more OM performed (p < 0.001). NOM had been successful in 325 patients (97.3%) with 9 failures. Underlying causes for NOM failure were hemodynamic instability due to secondary bleeding and infectious complications. Overall mortality was 11.2%, which was significantly higher in the OM group (23.7%) than in the NOM group (6.9%).ConclusionThis study represents one of the largest single centre experiences on the blunt liver, spleen, and kidney injuries in Malaysia and South-East Asia. With good selection and adequate resources, non-operative management of blunt liver, spleen, and kidney injuries is a safe and effective therapeutic approach with a high success rate of 97.3%, avoiding the morbidity of unnecessary laparotomies.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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