Undertriage Despite Use of Geriatric-Specific Trauma Team Activation Guidelines : Who Are We Missing?

Autor:	Anantha RV; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Painter MD; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Diaz-Garelli F; 12280 Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Nunn AM; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Miller PR 3rd; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Chang MC; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA., Jason Hoth J; 6889 Department of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	The American surgeon [Am Surg] 2021 Mar; Vol. 87 (3), pp. 419-426. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 07.
DOI:	10.1177/0003134820951450
Abstrakt:	Background: Elderly trauma patients are at risk for undertriage, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to determine whether implementation of geriatric-specific trauma team activation (TTA) protocols appropriately identified severely-injured elderly patients. Methods: This single-center retrospective study evaluated all severely injured (injury severity score [ISS] >15), geriatric (≥65 years) patients admitted to our Level 1 tertiary-care hospital between January 2014 and September 2017. Undertriage was defined as the lack of TTA despite presence of severe injuries. The primary outcome was all-cause in-hospital mortality; secondary outcomes were mortality within 48 hours of admission and urgent hemorrhage control. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify predictors of appropriate triage in this study. Results: Out of 1039 severely injured geriatric patients, 628 (61%) did not undergo TTA. Undertriaged patients were significantly older and had more comorbidities. In-hospital mortality was 5% and 31% in the undertriaged and appropriately triaged groups, respectively ( P < .0001). One percent of undertriaged patients needed urgent hemorrhage control, compared to 6% of the appropriately triaged group ( P < .0001). One percent of undertriaged patients died within 48 hours compared to 19% in the appropriately triaged group ( P < .0001). Predictors of appropriate triage include GCS, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, lactic acid, ISS, shock, and absence of dementia, stroke, or alcoholism. Discussion: Geriatric-specific TTA guidelines continue to undertriage elderly trauma patients when using ISS as a metric to measure undertriage. However, undertriaged patients have much lower morbidity and mortality, suggesting the geriatric-specific TTA guidelines identify those patients at highest risk for poor outcomes.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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