Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 22, Volume 77, Issue 1, October 2019, Pages 4821-4823 PDF (343.51 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.47004 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nahla El-Sebaie Mostafa* 1; Khalid Ahmed Ismail2; Akram Mohammed Elbatarny2; Khalid Mohammed ElShimy2 | ||
| 1Emergency Medicine &Traumatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 35127, Egypt. | ||
| 2General surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 35127, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Trauma is considered the leading cause of children death worldwide. The most common cause of death in pediatric trauma is abdominal trauma. Aim of the study: This study aimed to evaluate incidence of solid organ injury after blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) in pediatric patients. Patients and Methods: The study was conducted on pediatric patients admitted to Emergency Department, Tanta University Hospital with suspected solid organ injury after isolated blunt abdominal trauma. Results: In this study, we had 119 patients with blunt abdominal trauma presented to emergency department. FAST (Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma) showed that intra-peritoneal free fluid (IPFF) only with no solid organ injury was found in 39.5%. Splenic injury was found in about 38.7% of patients while hepatic injury was present in about 18.5%. Renal injury was found in about 1.7%. Both renal and splenic injury were present in about 0.8%. Conclusion: Splenic injury was the most common solid organ to be injured in blunt abdominal trauma in pediatrics. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pediatric; blunt trauma; abdominal; intra-abdominal injury | ||
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