ABSTRACT
Introducción. Las lesiones tipo degloving o avulsiones extensas de partes blandas representan un desafío para el equipo médico tratante. Es fundamental el adecuado manejo de estos pacientes dada la alta morbilidad. Objetivos. Estudio de las lesiones tipo degloving de partes blandas tratados en el Centro Nacional de Quemados, su manejo y tratamiento en los últimos 18 años. Analizar la situación actual de estas heridas a fin de proporcionar herramientas para el desarrollo de estrategias de prevención y tratamiento. Materiales y métodos. Estudio retrospectivo período enero 2004 - enero 2022, análisis de base de datos del Centro Nacional de Quemados del Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, incluyendo todos los ingresos por degloving extensos de partes blandas Resultados. La población estuvo compuesta por 38 pacientes, en su mayoría con lesiones por siniestro de tránsito (92,1%) en rol peatón (57,9%). Se encontró una tasa de complicaciones de 55,3% y una mortalidad de 15,8%. Se vio asociación entre complicaciones infecciosas y mortalidad y entre cultivo positivo al ingreso y demora en el ingreso al centro de quemados. Conclusiones. Las lesiones graves de miembros inferiores se han presentado con elevada tasa de mortalidad y de complicaciones infecciosas. Estas complicaciones se asociaron con un mayor tiempo de internación. Las complicaciones infecciosas a su vez se asociaron con la mortalidad, igual que la extensión lesional.
Introduction. Degloving injuries or extensive soft tissue avulsions represent a challenge for the medical team. Proper management of these patients is essential given the high morbidity. Objectives. To study of soft tissue degloving injuries treated at the National Burn Center, their management and treatment in the last 18 years. To analyze the current situation of these injuries in order to provide tools for development of prevention and treatment strategies. Materials and methods. Retrospective study from January 2004 to January 2022, database analysis of the National Burn Center of "Hospital de Clínicas" (Montevideo-Uruguay), including all admissions for extensive soft tissue degloving. Results. The population consisted of 38 patients, mostly with injuries due to traffic accidents (92.1%) of which 57.9% were pedestrians. A complication rate of 55.3% and a mortality of 15.8% were found. An association arised between infectious complications and mortality and between a positive culture on admission and a delay in time to enter to the National Burn Center. Conclusions. Lower limbs severe injuries have presented a high rate of mortality and infectious complications. These complications were associated with a longer hospital stay. Infectious complications, in turn, were associated with mortality, as well as the extent of lesions.
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Humans , Male , Female , Accidents, Traffic/mortality , Degloving Injuries/complications , Degloving Injuries/mortality , Infections/complicationsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical curative effect of different treatment methods for large area avulsion injury in the lower limb. METHODS: Between January 2010 and December 2013, 54 patients with large area avulsion injury in the lower limb were treated in the trauma center of our hospital, including 34 males and 20 females with a mean age of 35.7 years (range, 16-65 years). The injury mechanism was traffic accident in 44 cases, hitting by heavy objects in 8 cases, and fall from height in 2 cases, involving 31 thighs, 19 legs and 4 feet involved. The sizes of the avulsed wounds ranged from 10 cm ×15 cm to 50 cm ×30 cm. There were 16 cases combined with hemorrhagic shock, 5 with femoral fractures, and 7 with tibiofibula fractures. Averagely the patients were sent to our hospital within 3.5 h (range, 1.5-10 h) after injury. For the 54 patients, three different surgical strategies were performed based on the wound area and condition of the avulsed skin: in Group A, 24 patients were treated by debridement and preservation of subcutaneous vascular network ⺠vertical mattress suture of full thickness skin flap ⺠tube drainage; in Group B, 25 patients were treated by split-thickness skin flap meshing and grafting ⺠vacuum sealing drainage (VSD); and in Group C, the other 5 patients were treated by debridement and VSD at stage I ⺠reattachment of autologous reserved frozen split-thickness skin graft at stage II. RESULTS: All the 54 patients recovered and were discharged eventually, without any deaths or amputees. In each group, there were no statistical differences (all p > 0.05) among different injury sites in terms of survival rate and length of hospital stay, except for the infection rate, which was much higher (p =0.000) at the leg area than that at the thigh (32.54% ± 2.97% vs. 2.32% ± 2.34% in Group A and 50.00% ± 0.00% vs. 0 in Group C) or the foot (50.00% ± 0.00% vs. 0 in Group C). Moreover comparison of the three surgical methods showed a significant different (all p < 0.05) between each other for all the three assessed parameters, i.e. flap survival rate, length of hospital stay, and infection rate. CONCLUSION: Treatment choices for skin avulsion on the lower limb should be based on the viability of the avulsed skin flap and the location of the wound. Proper choice can not only reduce the economic burden caused by using VSD, but also shorten the long hospital stay due to repeated wound dressing change or second stage surgery.
