The impact of prehospital management of trauma patients on outcome of ICU treatment at Emergency center CC 'Vojvodina' - one - year experience
Autor: | Dunja Mihajlovic, Vladimir Vrsajkov, Slavko Lovrencic, Aleksandar Gluhovic, Vesna Pajtic |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Zdroj: | Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica. 63:19-26 |
ISSN: | 2406-0887 0354-950X |
DOI: | 10.2298/aci1602019p |
Popis: | Impact of prehospital treatment of traumatized patients on treatment outcome in intensive care unit at Emergency center Clinical center of Vojvodina-one year experience Introduction: Trauma is the leading cause of death in 1-44 years old population. Recommendations of prehospital treatment of injured patients rely on the speed of response and transport to referent trauma center, where the patient will be adequately treated. Aim: The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of prehospital treatment and characteristics of patients before admission of patients to Emergency center-Clinical center of Vojvodina on survival of these patients in intensive care unit of Emergency center in order to improve the treatment and outcome of these patients. Material and methods: 209 patients who were treated in intensive care unit after the initial resuscitation in Emergency center-Clinical center of Vojvodina were included in our study. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 software. Differences between groups of patients were assessed by Mann-Whitney U test. Categorical variables were compared using chi-square test. Statistical significance (p) was set at a value of 0.05. Results; Patients with worse outcome were significantly older than patients who had good outcome (49.4?18.5 vs. 63?14.7, p |
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