ABSTRACT
Background: Hepatic trauma is the second injury of closed abdominal injury, but it is the leading cause of death. The most of hepatic trauma due to closed abdominal injury caused by traffic accident. Objectives: To assess determinants to treatment attitude of hepatic trauma patients treated in Viet Duc hospital. Subjects and method: A cross-section descriptive study was conducted on 157 patients with closed abdominal injury (118 male, 39 female), was diagnosed with hepatic trauma, treated in Viet Duc hospital from January, 2004 to April, 2006. Results: The average age of patients were 28.9\xb113 for male, 28.8\xb112 for female. The common occupations were farmers (35.7%), workers (14.6%), no professional 14.6% and other jobs (35.1%). Combined injuries included: cranial trauma (9.6%), facial trauma (10.2%), chest trauma (17.2%), major bone trauma (7.6%). 19.7% patients with combined injuries were operated. 130 patients with hepatic trauma (82.2%) was detected by ultrasound, 1 patient with splenic trauma combined hepatic repture. The differences between shock of admission, level of hepatic trauma and the amount of blood in abdominal CT scans to treatment attitude were having a statistically significant with p<0.001, p<0.001 and p=0.005, respective. Conclusion: Recently, the treatment attitudes with hepatic trauma patients have more changed. Hemodynamic stability, clinical close monitoring, excluding combined injuries required surgery and assessing injuries by CT scans are important factors to indicate conservation therapy for hepatic trauma. Conservation therapy is safe and effective in the treatment of hepatic trauma in Viet Duc hospital.