Nonoperative Management of Blunt Hepatic and Splenic Injury in Children
| Autor: | Catherine S. Gotschall, Sheldon J. Bond, Judson G. Randolph, Martin R. Eichelberger, Carlos J. Sivit |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Decision Making Wounds Nonpenetrating Injury Severity Score Blunt medicine Humans Blood Transfusion Nonoperative management Child business.industry Infant medicine.disease Surgery Treatment Outcome Liver El Niño Child Preschool Female Splenic disease Tomography X-Ray Computed business Algorithms Bed Rest Spleen Follow-Up Studies Research Article Pediatric trauma |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Surgery. 223:286-289 |
| ISSN: | 0003-4932 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00000658-199603000-00009 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed the risks of nonoperative management of solid visceral injuries in children (age range, 4 months-14 years) who were consecutively admitted to a level I pediatric trauma center during a 6-year period ending in 1991. METHOD: One hundred seventy-nine children (5.0%) sustained injury to the liver or spleen. Nineteen children (11.2%) died. Of the 160 children who survived, 4 received emergency laparotomies; 156 underwent diagnostic computer tomography and were managed nonoperatively. The percentage of children who were successfully treated nonoperatively was 97.4%. Delayed diagnosis of enteric perforations occurred in two children. Fifty-three children (34.0%) received transfusions (mean volume 16.7 mL/kg); however, transfusion rates during the latter half of the study decreased from 50% to 19% in children with hepatic injuries, despite increasing grade of injury, and decreased from 57% to 23% in the splenic group with similar injury grade (p < 0.005, chi square test and Student's t test). CONCLUSION: Pediatric blunt hepatic and splenic trauma is associated with significant mortality. Nonoperative management based on physiologic parameters, rather than on computed tomography grading of organ injury, was highly successful, with few missed injuries and a low transfusion rate. |
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