Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Nov 1992
Factors associated with outcome in blunt aortic injury: a population-based study.
A population-based study was conducted for two contiguous states representing a population of 9.1 million to determine whether age, injury severity score, major complications, and preexisting conditions contribute to the outcome of patients diagnosed with blunt traumatic aortic injury. A secondary analysis reviewed patients with blunt aortic injury admitted over a six-year period to a trauma center located in one of the states to examine other more detailed factors related to mortality. ⋯ The elderly (age > or = 55) in both data sets sustained higher mortality from blunt aortic injury. In the trauma center population, the elderly had more delay in diagnosis than the younger patient population.