Complications of patients with traumatic rib fractures
| Outcome | Total patients | Polytrauma (ISS >16) | Elderly (>65 years) | Isolated thoracic trauma | Flail chest | Type of injury | |||||
| Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Blunt | Penetrating | ||
| n=564 798 | n=253 564 | n=311 234 | n=161 579 | n=403 219 | n=350 898 | n=213 900 | n=23 388 | n=541 410 | n=539 422 | n=16 179 | |
| Pneumonia | 28 841 (5.1) | 22 578 (8.9) | 6263 (2.0) | 7917 (4.9) | 20 924 (5.2) | 9178 (2.6) | 19 663 (9.2) | 3203 (13.7) | 25 638 (4.7) | 27 594 (5.1) | 779 (4.8) |
| ARDS | 11 488 (2.0) | 9190 (3.6) | 2314 (0.7) | 3127 (1.9) | 8361 (2.1) | 3590 (1.0) | 7898 (3.7) | 1360 (5.8) | 10 128 (1.9) | 10 917 (2.0) | 391 (2.4) |
| DVT | 9895 (1.8) | 8022 (3.2) | 1873 (0.6) | 2649 (1.6) | 7246 (1.8) | 2647 (0.8) | 7248 (3.4) | 1043 (4.5) | 8852 (1.6) | 9435 (1.7) | 337 (2.1) |
| Pulmonary embolism | 4341 (0.7) | 3200 (1.3) | 1141 (0.4) | 1040 (0.6) | 3301 (0.8) | 1459 (0.4) | 2882 (1.3) | 376 (1.6) | 3965 (0.7) | 4130 (0.8) | 158 (1.0) |
| Myocardial infarction | 1993 (0.4) | 1264 (0.5) | 729 (0.2) | 1288 (0.8) | 705 (0.2) | 841 (0.2) | 1152 (0.5) | 160 (0.7) | 1833 (0.3) | 1993 (0.4) | 30 (0.2) |
| Cardiac arrest with CPR | 8380 (1.5) | 7007 (2.8) | 1373 (0.4) | 2871 (1.8) | 5509 (1.4) | 2311 (0.7) | 6069 (2.8) | 944 (4.0) | 7436 (1.4) | 7787 (1.4) | 482 (3.0) |
All data are presented as mean (%).
ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; ISS, Injury Severity Score.