アブストラクト | PURPOSE: The effectiveness of surgical rib fixation is currently controversial, partly because of differences in timing. We used a Japanese nationwide database to investigate the effectiveness of surgical rib fixation in relation to its timing. METHODS: We used the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database to identify patients with rib fractures who underwent mechanical ventilation from 1 July 2010 to 31 March 2018. We performed overlap weight analysis to compare in-hospital outcomes between patients who had and had not undergone surgical rib fixation within 3, 6 or 10 days after admission. The primary outcomes were duration of mechanical ventilation and post-rib fixation length of hospital stay. The secondary outcomes were tracheostomy, post-admission pneumonia and all-cause 28-day in-hospital mortality. RESULTS: We identified 8922 eligible patients. Surgical rib fixation within 3 days after admission was associated with shorter duration of mechanical ventilation (percent difference, - 42.9%; 95% confidence interval, - 57.4 to - 23.3) and shorter hospital stay (percent difference, - 19.6%; 95% confidence interval, - 31.8 to - 5.2). There were no significant differences between the groups in tracheostomy (risk difference, - 0.04; 95% confidence interval, - 0.15 to 0.07), post-admission pneumonia (risk difference, - 0.04; 95% confidence interval, - 0.13 to 0.05) or all-cause 28-day in-hospital mortality (risk difference, - 0.02; 95% confidence interval, - 0.07 to 0.03). However, there were no significant differences in any in-hospital outcomes between those who had and had not undergone rib fixation within 6 or 10 days after admission. CONCLUSION: Early surgical rib fixation was associated with better in-hospital outcomes, whereas later surgical rib fixation was not. |
ジャーナル名 | European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society |
Pubmed追加日 | 2020/11/20 |
投稿者 | Otaka, Shunichi; Aso, Shotaro; Matsui, Hiroki; Fushimi, Kiyohide; Yasunaga, Hideo |
組織名 | Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public;Health, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.;shun-tky@umin.ac.jp.;Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo,;Japan.;Department of Health Policy and Informatics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University;Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33210171/ |