Mostafa, N., Ismail, K., Elbatarny, A., ElShimy, K. (2019). Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77(1), 4821-4823. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.47004
Nahla El-Sebaie Mostafa; Khalid Ahmed Ismail; Akram Mohammed Elbatarny; Khalid Mohammed ElShimy. "Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77, 1, 2019, 4821-4823. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.47004
Mostafa, N., Ismail, K., Elbatarny, A., ElShimy, K. (2019). 'Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 77(1), pp. 4821-4823. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.47004
Mostafa, N., Ismail, K., Elbatarny, A., ElShimy, K. Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2019; 77(1): 4821-4823. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2019.47004
Incidence of Solid Organ Injury after Isolated Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients in Tanta University Hospital
1Emergency Medicine &Traumatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 35127, Egypt.
2General surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta 35127, Egypt.
Abstract
Background: Trauma is considered the leading cause of children death worldwide. The most common cause of death in pediatric trauma is abdominal trauma. Aim of the study: This study aimed to evaluate incidence of solid organ injury after blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) in pediatric patients. Patients and Methods: The study was conducted on pediatric patients admitted to Emergency Department, Tanta University Hospital with suspected solid organ injury after isolated blunt abdominal trauma. Results: In this study, we had 119 patients with blunt abdominal trauma presented to emergency department. FAST (Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma) showed that intra-peritoneal free fluid (IPFF) only with no solid organ injury was found in 39.5%. Splenic injury was found in about 38.7% of patients while hepatic injury was present in about 18.5%. Renal injury was found in about 1.7%. Both renal and splenic injury were present in about 0.8%. Conclusion: Splenic injury was the most common solid organ to be injured in blunt abdominal trauma in pediatrics.
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