Data on Acute Care Surgery Published by Researchers at National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital (Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Trauma Treated in a Local Trauma Center): Surgery – Acute Care Surgery

Hospital & Nursing Home Daily

2023 OCT 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Fresh data on acute care surgery are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of elderly patients who visited a non-regional trauma center to examine the effects of old age on the clinical outcomes of patients. The medical charts of 159 patients with trauma who visited the National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital between March 2020 and February 2022 were retrospectively analyzed.”

Funders for this research include National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital: “Of the 159 patients, 41 were assigned to the elderly patient group (EPG) and 118 were assigned to the non-elderly patient group (NEPG). The average age of patients in each group was 75.5 and 38.2 years in the EPG and the NEPG, respectively. Comparing the injury mechanism between the two groups, pedestrian traffic accidents (TA) were the most common (24.4%), followed by slipping (19.5%), motorcycle TA, and bicycle TA (14.6%) in EPG. In the NEPG, motorcycle TA (28.0%) was the most common, followed by car TA (27.1%), and fall injury (16.9%), with a significant difference between the two groups (p < 0.001). The significant differences between the two groups were the injury severity score (ISS; p = 0.004), severe trauma (p = 0.045), intensive care unit admission (p = 0.028), emergency operation (p = 0.034), and mortality (p = 0.013). The statistically significant risk factors for mortality were old age (p = 0.024) and chest injury (p = 0.013).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Patients in the EPG compared with the NEPG group showed different injury mechanisms. The EPG has a higher severity and mortality rate than the NEPG.”

For more information on this research see: Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Trauma Treated in a Local Trauma Center. Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2023,13(1):13-20. The publisher for Journal of Acute Care Surgery is Korean Society of Acute Care Surgery.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.17479/jacs.2023.13.1.13.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kwanhoon Park, Department of Surgery, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Geonjae Cho, Sungho Lee, Kang Yoon Lee, Ji Young Jang.