Evaluation of the epidemiology, prognostic factors and results of the patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit due to thoracic trauma

Abstract

Of the 30 patients included in the study, 28 (93.3%) were male and 2 (6.7%) were female. Twenty-eight (60%) patients had blunt thorax trauma and 12 (40%) had penetrating thorax trauma. Intubation was required in 20 patients and blood transfusion was required in 10 patients. The median follow-up of the trauma patients in the intensive care unit was 120 hours and the median duration of stay in the mechanical ventilator was 84 hours. A statistically significant correlation was found between APACHE II scores and duration of mechanical ventilator stay (p=0.024) and pH and intensive care unit stay (p=0.013). When the patients were evaluated in terms of survival, there was a statistically significant relationship between GCS and APACHE II scores and survival (p=0.001).