European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Feb 2024
Observational StudyMerging of two level-1 trauma centers in Amsterdam: premerger demand in integrated acute trauma care.
Availability of adequate and appropriate trauma care is essential. A merger of two Dutch academic level-1 trauma centers is upcoming. However, in the literature, volume effects after a merger are inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the premerger demand for level-1 trauma care on integrated acute trauma care and evaluate the expected demand on the system. ⋯ A merger of two Dutch level-1 trauma centers would, in this scenario, result in a more than 150% increase in the post-merger setting's demand for integrated acute trauma care.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Feb 2024
Early correction of base deficit decreases late mortality in polytrauma.
Physiology-driven resuscitation has become the standard of care in severely injured patients. This has resulted in a decrease in acute deaths by hemorrhagic shock. With increased survival from hemorrhage, focus shifts towards death later during hospital stay. This population based cohort study investigated the association of initial physiology derangement correction and (late) mortality. ⋯ Early physiological restoration based on serial BD measurements in the first 48 h after injury decreases late mortality.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Feb 2024
3D osteotomies-improved accuracy with patient-specific instruments (PSI).
Three-dimensional (3D) printed patient-specific instruments (PSI) have been introduced to increase precision and simplify surgical procedures. Initial results in femoral and tibial osteotomies are promising, but validation studies on 3D planning, manufacturing of patient-specific cutting blocks and 3D evaluation of the attained results are lacking. ⋯ With 3D cutting blocks and spacers, the 3D planning of the HTO can be translated into reality with small deviations of the resulting joint angles. Within this study, the results of the individual steps are examined for errors and thus a critical evaluation of this new and promising method for performing patient-specific HTOs is presented.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Feb 2024
Outcome predictors of patients who underwent limb amputation/s following trauma at a level I trauma center in North India.
Limb amputation is one of the oldest medical operations, dating back over 2500 years to Hippocrates' time. In developing countries like India, most of the patients are young, and trauma is the primary cause of limb amputation. The objectives of this study were to investigate the factors that can predict the outcome of patients who underwent upper or lower limb amputations. ⋯ Factors that affected the outcome were delayed presentation, hemorrhagic shock, higher ISS, NISS, MESS scores, surgical-site infection, and associated injuries. Overall mortality during the study was 8.6%.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Feb 2024
Characteristics of emergency general surgery services in Switzerland: a nationwide survey.
Running an emergency general surgery (EGS) service is challenging and requires significant personnel and institutional resources. The aim of this study was to achieve a nationwide overview of the individual EGS service organizations in public hospitals in Switzerland. ⋯ Lack of higher level of care in small hospitals, limited emergency OR capacity and short rotations of on-call teams are major drawbacks of many current EGS systems in Switzerland. Centralization of critically ill EGS patients and reorganization of surgical on-call systems to designated acute care surgery teams should be considered.