NCT06464302

Investigation of the Effect of Age and Injury Severity on Short-term Intra-hospital Outcomes After Surgical Stabilized Rib Fractures

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Muenster · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to investigate the effect of surgical stabilisation of rib fractures (SSRF) on clinical outcomes measured during the hospital stay (mortality, days on a mechanical ventilator, intensive care unit and hospital length of stay, rate of complications). Furthermore, the effect of the patients age and overall injury severity on the outcomes after SSRF will be investigated. We hypothesise that the combination of high age and high injury severity will lead to worse outcomes after SSRF.

Conditions

• Rib Fractures
• Rib Trauma
• Rib Fracture Multiple
• Thorax; Fracture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Surgical stabilisation of rib fractures (SSRF)	Surgical stabilisation of rib fractures using any fixation technique (including but not limited to plate fixation, intramedullary fixation, wire fixation) via any operative approach (including but not limited to open external approach, minimally invasive approach, thoracoscopic approach, thoracotomy approach).
OTHER	Non-operative management of rib fractures	Any supportive or specific treatment of rib fractures excluding surgical stabilisation of rib fractures. This includes, but is not limited to analgesia, physiotherapy, non-invasive ventilation, mechanical ventilation, oxygen-supplementation

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2026-06-30
• First posted: 2024-06-18
• Last updated: 2025-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany