Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Maximilian Peter Forssten, Babak Sarani, Marcelo A F Ribeiro, Parker Chang, Yang Cao, Frank Hildebrand, Shahin Mohseni
BACKGROUND: Traumatic spinal injury (TSI) encompasses a wide range of injuries affecting the spinal cord, nerve roots, bones, and soft tissues that result in pain, impaired mobility, paralysis, and death. There is some evidence suggesting that women may have different physiological responses to traumatic injury compared to men; therefore, this study aimed to investigate if there are any associations between sex and adverse outcomes following surgically managed isolated TSI. METHODS: Using the 2013-2019 TQIP database, all adult patients with isolated TSI, defined as a spine AIS ≥ 2 with an AIS ≤ 1 in all other body regions, resulting from blunt force trauma requiring spinal surgery, were eligible for inclusion in the study...
May 16, 2023: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery: Official Publication of the European Trauma Society