Epidemiology and Mortality of Surgical Amputations in Severely Injured Patients with Extremity Injuries—A Retrospective Analysis of 32,572 Patients from the TraumaRegister DGU®
Julian Scherer, Jakob Hax, Michel Paul Johan Teuben, Hans-Christoph Pape, Rolf Lefering, Kai Sprengel · 2024
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Description
Scherer and five co-authors mine a German trauma registry for how often badly injured patients lose a limb. Their data covered 32,572 severely injured patients with limb fractures treated between 2009 and 2019. Car crashes caused most injuries, and over half the patients also had severe chest trauma.
Amputation stayed rare: 242 upper-limb and 422 lower-limb cases. The share rose steeply when overall injury severity passed the highest band. Patients with severe chest injuries were amputated more often in both limb groups. The authors offer the numbers as a planning base for trauma centers. They note the salvage-versus-amputation call still hinges on the limb's state and the patient's stability.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Julian Scherer, Jakob Hax, Michel Paul Johan Teuben, Hans-Christoph Pape, Rolf Lefering, Kai Sprengel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |