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Management of blunt hepatic trauma at a Connecticut Level I trauma center.
Connecticut Medicine 2007 October
This study examined the management of patients with hepatic trauma treated at a Level I trauma center in Connecticut from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003. Forty-four patients over the age of 16 years sustained blunt liver injury and were brought to Hartford Hospital during the study period. Eight of these patients died; three of these deaths occurred in the emergency department (ED) shortly after arrival. Thirty-four patients (82.9%) with blunt liver injuries were managed nonoperatively. Only one of these patients died, not as a direct result of hepatic injury. The average Injury Severity Score (ISS) for these patients decreased as the injury grade increased but this was not statistically significant (P=0.684). A moderate positive and statistically significant relationship was noted between the length of hospital stay and the ISS (r=0.597, P=0.000). Our findings suggest that the current standard of care for most patients with blunt hepatic injuries is nonoperative management. It is the rare and most severely injured patient that will require operative management. As reported in the literature, mortality for these patients remains unchanged.
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