Prevalence of internal abdominal organs’ injuries in patients operated upon after blunt abdominal trauma
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Source
Issue
Vol. 14, Issue 1 (31 Mar. 2008), pp.42-47, 6 p.
Publisher
University of Basrah College of Medicine
Publication Date
2008-03-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
6
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Topics
Abstract EN
Blunt abdominal trauma may result in multiple severe injuries which make the abdomen difficult to assess and easy to overlook.
Unrecognized intra-abdominal injury is a significant cause of preventable death in blunt trauma.
This study aimed to find the frequency and features of laparotomy findings for different internal abdominal organs’ injuries in patients subjected to blunt abdominal injury.
A total of 450 patients subjected to blunt abdominal trauma were admitted to the emergency surgical department of Sula mania Surgical Teaching Hospital following, 140 of them were decided to undergo exploratory laparotomy depending on their clinical and imaging findings that suggesting a visceral injury.
Thirty one percent of the patients who subjected to blunt abdominal trauma need exploratory laparotomy, 80.7% of them were male, and 67.9% were young.
The predominant causative factor of blunt abdominal trauma was the motor vehicle accidents.
Spleen and liver were the frequent injured solid organs.
Almost all of the patients had positive laparotomy results.
Traumatic head and neck injuries were the most common associated non abdominal injuries.
Morality rate was only 5% while complication rate was only 7%.
It is concluded that males at young active productive age are the main persons suffer from blunt abdominal trauma.
This has an important economic impact on the productivity of the community.
Spleen injury being the most commonly intra-abdominal solid injured organ followed by liver, other visceral structures are uncommonly involved.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Saeed, Kamal Ahmad. 2008. Prevalence of internal abdominal organs’ injuries in patients operated upon after blunt abdominal trauma. Basrah Journal of Surgery،Vol. 14, no. 1, pp.42-47.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-112660
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Saeed, Kamal Ahmad. Prevalence of internal abdominal organs’ injuries in patients operated upon after blunt abdominal trauma. Basrah Journal of Surgery Vol. 14, no. 1 (Mar. 2008), pp.42-47.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-112660
American Medical Association (AMA)
Saeed, Kamal Ahmad. Prevalence of internal abdominal organs’ injuries in patients operated upon after blunt abdominal trauma. Basrah Journal of Surgery. 2008. Vol. 14, no. 1, pp.42-47.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-112660
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 47
Record ID
BIM-112660