Recently, the trauma patients have been markedly increasing due to the vast increase of traffic accident, industrial disaster, incidental accident and violence. The authors have analysed of 22 patients of thoracic injuries combined with
abdominal
injuries and summarized as follows.
The ratio of male to female was 3.4:1 and their age distribution was from 5 years to 68 years and mean age was 34.4 years.
The etiologies of injury were traffic accident, stab wound, fall down and violence. Associated injuries were fractures, bowel perforation, kidney rupture, head injury, liver laceration, spleen rupture and so forth.
The modes of treatment were closed thoracostomy, repair of diaphragm, ruptured bowel repair, explo-thoracotomy, splenectomy, hepatic lobectomy in this order of frequency. The postoperative complications were atelectasis, wound infection,
pneumonia,
empyema, acute renal failure, respiratory failure and bleeding.
The mortality rate was 13.6% (3/22) and the causes of death were respiratory failure 1 case, acute renal failure 1 case and hypovolemic shock 1 case.
(Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1995;28:842-6)
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