Marcadores pronósticos en los pacientes con traumatismo torácico cerrado

Determinants of mortality in chest trauma patients

“…Increased mortality in the elderly patients with chest trauma may rather be because of associated higher pre-morbid conditions, which are not uncommon in this cohort of patients and has been discovered to be important in another study to include chronic bronchial disease. [48] This study gives same finding with other similar studies in terms of the proportion of the two main classes of chest trauma where blunt trauma occurs much more commonly than penetrating trauma. [26] In the present study the ratio of blunt to penetrating injury is about 65%:35%.…”

“…It seems that the demographic characteristics of chest trauma has remained same over the years and across geographical regions with male preponderance and predominance of young age. [12456789] In this study, male: female ratio stood at 4.1:1 and mean age of 37.42 years [Tables 1 and 2]. Explanations for these observations include the young and males engaging in high risk activities more than females and old.…”

“…[3] Furthermore chest injury is still directly responsible for about 25% of trauma-related deaths and contribute to death in another 25% of trauma-related deaths. [124] Therefore, chest injury directly and indirectly causes death in up to 50% of trauma-related deaths. Again chest injury peaks in the productive age groups where economic implications of chest injury are maximal.…”

“…Again chest injury peaks in the productive age groups where economic implications of chest injury are maximal. [1245]…”

“…[5] Both types of chest trauma namely blunt and penetrating chest trauma can result in mortality. [12345] Although in most series, blunt chest trauma occur more frequently than penetrating chest trauma in the ratio of 70:30, analyses do not show deaths from the two types of chest trauma to be proportionally distributed. [6] Again each type of chest trauma can result in injury to one or more anatomic parts of the chest viz-a-viz the chest wall, the diaphragm, the tracheo-bronchial tree, the lung parenchyma and the mediastinal structures including the heart and major vessels.…”