Does Clamshell Thoracotomy Better Facilitate Thoracic Life-Saving Procedures Without Increased Complication Compared with an Anterolateral Approach to Resuscitative Thoracotomy? Results from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Registry - 23/11/20
, Jonathan Morrison, MD, PhD a, Laura J. Moore, MD, FACS b, Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, FACS c, Mark J. Seamon, MD, FACS c, Kenji Inaba, MD, FACS d, Charles J. Fox, MD, FACS e, Ernest E. Moore, MD, FACS e, David V. Feliciano, MD, FACS a, Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS afor the
AAST AORTA Study Group
Abstract |
Background |
Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is life-saving in select patients and can be accomplished through a left anterolateral (AT) or clamshell thoracotomy (CT). CT may provide additional exposure, facilitating certain operative procedures, but the added blood and heat loss and time to perform it may increase complications. No prospective multicenter comparison of techniques has yet been reported.
Study Design |
The observational AAST Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute care surgery (AORTA) registry was used to compare AT and CT in RT.
Results |
AORTA recorded 1,218 RTs at 46 trauma centers from June 2014 to January 2020. Overall survival after RT was 6.0% (AT 6.6%; [59 of 900]; CT 4.2% [13 of 296], p = 0.132). Among all RTs, 11.1% (142 of 1,278) surviving at least 24 hours were used tocompare AT (112) and CT (30). There was no difference between the 2 groups withregard to age, sex, Injury Severity Score, or mechanism of injury (Table 1). CT was significantly more likely to be used in patients needing resection of the lung or cardiac repair. CT was not associated with increased local thoracic/systemic complications, higher transfusion requirement, or greater ventilator, ICU, or hospital days compared with AT.
Conclusions |
Clamshell thoracotomy facilitates thoracic life-saving procedures withoutincreased systemic or thoracic complications compared with AT in patients undergoing RT.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Abbreviations and Acronyms : AAST, AIS, AORTA, AT, CT, IQR, ISS, RT
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| Members of the AAST AORTA Study Group who co-authored this article are listed in the Appendix. |
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| Disclaimer: This work represents the authors' own work. The opinions and assertions contained herein are not to be considered as official or reflecting the views of the US Air Force or the Department of Defense. |
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| Data accepted for podium presentation at the 79th Annual American Association for the Surgery of Trauma virtual meeting, September 2020. |
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