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AMPUTATION RISK AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF POPLITEAL VESSEL TRAUMA

 

Objective

to identify risk factors of amputation after surgical treatment of  popliteal vessel trauma.

 

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

 

Setting

University Hospital in Cali, Colombia.

 

Patients

176 individuals, 159 men and 17 women, between the ages of 5 and 75 years (mean 27,7 SD+/-11,4), were treated surgically from January 1992 to December 2004. The mechanisms were gunshot in 104 cases, shotgun in 15, stabwounds  in 16 and blunt trauma in 37. Amputation was performed in 27 patients (15,3%).

 

Measurements and results

A chart revision was performed. Demographic data, trauma characteristics and details of the treatment were tabulated. Bivariate analysis was performed, taking amputation as a dependent variable. Candidate risk factors identified by a p< 0.1, (shown in the table), were included in MLR models.

 

Variable

Present n (%)

Amputation n (%)

R.R.

I.C.95%

p

Blunt Trauma

37 (21,0)

12 (32,4)

3.01

1.54- 5.86

0.001

Ischemia or pulse absent

98 (55,7)

24 (24,5)

6.37

1.99- 20.37

<0.001

Fracture

78 (44,3)

19 (24,4)

2.98

1.38- 6.45

0.003

Peripheral nerve trauma

31 (17,6)

8 (25,8)

1.97

0.95- 4.08

0.075

Interval to surgery >6h

76 (43,2)

18 (23,7)

2.63

1.25- 5.53

0.007

MESS >4

71 (40,3)

23 (32,5)

8.5

3.07- 23-54

<0.001

Venous ligation

37 (21.0)

11 (29,7)

2.58

1.24- 5.08

0.006

Fascitomy

104 (59,1)

22(21,2)

2.98

1.38- 6.45

0.003

 

MLR identified blunt trauma, ischemia or pulse absent, time elapsed before surgery, venous ligature and MESS >4, as risk factors.

 

Conclusion: Trauma severity, ischemia duration and venous ligature related to amputation risk  

 Autor:

ECUADORIAN SOCIETY OF TRAUMA

Memories of Pan-american Congress of Trauam

Guayaquil - November 2005

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