NCT02494232

Emergency Management of Minor Blunt Thoracic Trauma

To Review the Management and Follow-up of Patients With Minor Thoracic Injuries Treated by Emergency Physicians.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 186 (actual)
• Sponsor: Antalya Training and Research Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Thoracic traumas are frequent causes of emergency department admissions and the third most common cause of death from trauma. Although emergency management of major thoracic traumas that have high mortality and morbidity were discussed and well-understood in detail in the literature, there are limited information regarding diagnosis, emergency management, treatment and follow-up after discharge of patients with minor blunt thoracic traumas. The investigators aimed to investigate demographic data, physical examination findings, and the relationship between lung injury, emergency department final diagnosis, hospitalization, discharge and re-admission rates, effects of prescribed analgesics on pain and re-admissions of patients with a pre-diagnosis of minor blunt thoracic trauma on first admission.

Conditions

• Thoracic Injuries,

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2015-07-10
• Last updated: 2015-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)