Selecting and justifying prognostic criteria to assessing the severity of condition during traumatic illness in combined chest and abdominal trauma after acute traffic accidents

Relevance. Improving prognostic criteria to assess the severity of combined chest and abdominal trauma is urgently needed to justify the scope of intensive care in victims of road accidents during acute traumatic illness.

Objective. The objective of the study is to improve the results of treatment during acute traumatic illness in combined chest and abdominal trauma after road accidents, as well as to enhance efficiency of prognostic criteria for severity assessment.

Methods. A single-center retrospective and prospective controlled clinical study was conducted in 1400 victims who were treated at the N.S. Karpovich Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Hospital of Emergency Care Medicine from 2012 to 2022 and were diagnosed with isolated or combined chest and abdominal trauma. To assess the severity of injury and perform triage, the specific method of severity assessment in combined trauma after road traffic accidents was used, which was developed by the research team of the Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University.

Results and discussion. A detailed analysis of the indicators applied to patients of different severity showed that mild and moderate chest and abdomen injuries led to changes in hemodynamic parameters within the physiological norm. The injury in question did not cause consciousness or respiratory disorders in victims of road traffic accidents. Severe injuries led to the development of shock and respiratory failure, in combination with depression of consciousness. In order to compare across different condition severity degrees evaluated by physiological indicators, respective medians and dispersion measures were analyzed for each group. The analysis allowed to assess exacerbated severity of condition in our patients. This procedure requires further adjustment to pre-hospital emergency medical care.

Conclusion. The performed statistical analysis allowed to assess the efficiency of severity assessment in victims of road accidents in prehospital setting.

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