Background
Tibial plateau fractures are traumatic injuries with severities ranging from nondisplaced to complicated fractures. This study describes the epidemiological characteristics of patients with tibial plateau fractures treated in five trauma clinics.
Methods
This retrospective, cross-sectional study included 1165 patients with tibial plateau fractures treated between December 2015 and May 2017. Subjects were selected from the medical records of five institutions based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Age, sex, laterality, fracture type, trauma mechanism, vehicle type, classification, and associated injuries were assessed via univariate and bivariate analyses.
Results
In total, 23.3% of patients with tibial fractures treated during the study period had tibial plateau fractures. Of those affected, 73% were men and 50% were younger than 40 years. Furthermore, 95.7% of fractures were caused by traffic accidents, 82.6% of which involved motorcycles. Fractures were closed in 93.1% of cases, and 78% of subjects had associated injuries. The most common fractures, according to Schatzker classification, were type VI (23%) and V (19.1%) fractures.
Conclusions
Tibial plateau fractures are frequent injuries in our setting and mostly occur in men in their 30 s and 40 s. These fractures are typically caused by motorcycle traffic accidents.
Level of Evidence.
IV.
Introducción: La resistencia a carbapenémicos en bacilos gramnegativos es un problema de salud pública mundial, debido a que se asocia con altas tasas de mortalidad, aumento en los niveles de resistencia a otros antimicrobianos, elevación en el potencial de diseminación e incremento en los costos de atención en salud. Objetivo: Caracterizar bacilos gramnegativos multirresistentes, aislados en pacientes hospitalizados en instituciones de salud de Barranquilla (Colombia). Material y Métodos: Estudio descriptivo acerca de la caracterización fenotípica y genotípica de la resistencia bacteriana en las infecciones asociadas a la atención en salud, mediada por carbapenemasas en aislados bacterianos enviados por los laboratorios pertenecientes a la red de laboratorios del Departamento del Atlántico. Resultados: La KPC fue la carbapenemasa más frecuente en las Enterobacterales (27,6%), predominando en Klebsiella pneumoniae (13,1%) sola y asociada a otras carbapenemasas. En Pseudomonas aeruginosa predominó la carbapenemasa VIM (32,8%) y la OXA en Acinetobacter baumannii (17,1%). Conclusión: Se encontró una amplia distribución de cepas multi-resistentes productoras de carbapenemasas en instituciones de salud de Barranquilla, las cuales expresaron los siguientes mecanismos de resistencia: KPC, VIM, NDM, OXA.
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