Abstract

Blunt chest trauma is an important and common cause of morbidity and mortality. It constitutes an important part of the admissions to the emergency department. For this purpose, we evaluated the demographic characteristics, type of trauma, accompanying traumas, trauma scoring systems and results, duration of stay in the emergency department, and hospital outcomes of patients with chest trauma admitted to the emergency department of our hospital. In our study, patients who admitted to the emergency department of our hospital within one year with blunt chest trauma were evaluated retrospectively. Of the 156 patients examined, 114 (73%) were male and the mean age was 52.83±17.9 years. Pneumothorax (35%) and rib fracture (55%) were the most common thoracic injuries. When the duration of hospitalization was examined, the presence of lower extremity and abdomen pathologies, pneumothorax, hemothorax, and (>3) rib fracture prolonged the hospitalization period (p

Key words: Blunt chest trauma, mortality, glasgow coma score, revised trauma score