Kyrillos G Awad, Jeffry Nahmias, Negaar Aryan, Alexa N Lucas, Nicole Fierro, Navpreet K Dhillon, Eric J Ley, Jennifer Smith, Sigrid Burruss, Alden Dahan, Arianne Johnson, William Ganske, Walter L Biffl, Dunya Bayat, Matthew Castelo, Diane Wintz, Kathryn B Schaffer, Dennis J Zheng, Areti Tillou, Raul Coimbra, Rahul Tuli, Jarrett E Santorelli, Brent Emigh, Morgan Schellenberg, Kenji Inaba, Thomas K Duncan, Graal Diaz, Erika Tay-Lasso, Danielle C Zezoff, Areg Grigorian
Nearly 10% of pregnant women suffer traumatic injury. Clinical outcomes for pregnant trauma patients (PTPs) with severe injuries have not been well studied. We sought to describe outcomes for PTPs presenting with severe injuries, hypothesizing that PTPs with severe injuries will have higher rates of complications and mortality compared to less injured PTPs. A post-hoc analysis of a multi-institutional retrospective study at 12 Level-I/II trauma centers was performed. Patients were stratified into severely injured (injury severity score [ISS] > 15) and not severely injured (ISS < 15) and compared with bivariate analyses...
March 30, 2024: Updates in Surgery