ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: Hypothermia occurs in 30-50% of severely injured trauma patients and is associated with multiple metabolic derangements and worsened outcomes. However, hypothermia continues to be under-diagnosed which leads to inadequate triage and treatment in trauma patients. Our study set out to determine if hypothermia is an independent predictor of mortality in trauma patients. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed data of all trauma activation patients over a 5-year period. Data were collected on patient demographics, initial core temperature, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) on presentation, and injury severity score (ISS). Patients were then stratified into groups based on presenting temperature, ISS, and GCS. Outcomes compared were mortality, blood products received, and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay. Correlations and logistic regression were used to test the hypotheses. RESULTS: Survival and temperature data were reviewed on 15,567 patients. Initial temperature was not significantly associated with ICU length of stay or blood products transfused (P = .21 and P = .08, respectively). However, odds ratio of mortality in hypothermic patients (<35°C) compared to normothermic patients (35-39°C) was 3.95 (95% CI 2.90-5.41). When controlling for GCS and ISS, separately, temperature remained an independent predictor of mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Hypothermia is an independent risk factor for mortality in trauma patients. It remains crucial to obtain accurate presenting temperatures in trauma patients in order to triage and treat hypothermia. Based on our data, obtaining core temperatures and rapidly treating hypothermia continues to be a vital part of the secondary survey of trauma patients.
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Body Temperature , Hypothermia/mortality , Wounds and Injuries/mortality , Adult , Aged , Blood Component Transfusion , Confidence Intervals , Female , Glasgow Coma Scale , Humans , Hypothermia/diagnosis , Hypothermia/etiology , Injury Severity Score , Intensive Care Units , Length of Stay , Male , Middle Aged , Odds Ratio , Retrospective Studies , Risk Factors , Triage , Wounds and Injuries/complicationsSubject(s)
Cardiac Surgical Procedures/methods , Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures , Mitral Valve Insufficiency/surgery , Mitral Valve Stenosis/surgery , Mitral Valve/surgery , Aged , Female , Humans , Logistic Models , Male , Middle Aged , Quality Indicators, Health Care , Retrospective Studies , Statistics, Nonparametric , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Concomitant mesh repair of large umbilical hernias and abdominoplasty pose a serious risk of devascularizing the umbilical stalk. A technique of placing mesh in a sublay manner, deep to the fascial defect, for an umbilical herniorrhaphy to avoid damage to the deep umbilical perforators during an abdominoplasty is described.
La réparation d'une importante hernie ombilicale et une abdominoplastie concomitantes par treillis posent un risque important de dévascularisation de la tige ombilicale. Les auteurs décrivent une technique consistant à placer le treillis de manière sous-jacente, profondément dans l'anomalie du fascia, pour que la hernioplastie ombilicale évite d'endommager les perforateurs ombilicaux profonds pendant l'abdominoplastie.
