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PMID: 23354229 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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BACKGROUND: Despite poor evidence and high costs, fibrinogen concentrate (FC) represents one of the most frequently used hemostatic agents in exsanguinating trauma. The aim was to assess whether the administration of FC in severely injured patients was associated with improved outcomes. METHODS: Patients documented in the Trauma Registry of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (primary admissions, Injury Severity Score [ISS] ≥16) who had received FC during initial care between emergency department (ED) arrival and intensive care unit admission (FC) were matched with patients who had not received FC (FC). RESULTS: The matched-pairs analysis yielded two comparable cohorts (n = 294 in each group) with a mean ISS of 37.6 ± 13.7 (FC) and 37.1 ± 13.3 (FC) (p = 0.73); the mean age was 40 ± 17 versus 40 ± 16 (p = 0.72), respectively. Patients were predominantly male (71.1% in both groups, p = 1.0). On emergency department arrival, hypotension (systolic blood pressure, ≤90 mm Hg) occurred in 51.4% (FC) and 48.0% (FC) (p = 0.41), and base excess was -7.4 ± 5.3 mmol/L for FC and was -7.5 ± 6.2 mmol/L for FC (p = 0.96). Patients were administered 12.8 ± 14.3 (FC) versus 11.3 ± 10.0 (FC) packed red blood cell units (p = 0.20). Thromboembolism occurred in 6.8% (FC) versus 3.4% (FC) (p = 0.06), and multiple organ failure occurred in 61.2% versus 49.0% (p = 0.003), respectively. Whereas 6-hour mortality was 10.5% for FC versus 16.7% for FC (p = 0.03), the mean time to death was 7.5 ± 14.6 days versus 4.7 ± 8.6 days (p = 0.006). The overall hospital mortality rate was 28.6% versus 25.5% (p = 0.40), respectively. CONCLUSION: This is the first study to investigate the effect of FC administration in bleeding trauma. In our large population of severely injured patients, the early use of FC was associated with a significantly lower 6-hour mortality and an increased time to death, but also an increased rate of multiple organ failure. A reduction of overall hospital mortality was not observed in patients receiving FC. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic study, level IV. |
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Arasch Wafaisade; Rolf Lefering; Marc Maegele; Thomas Brockamp; Manuel Mutschler; Sven Lendemans; Marc Banerjee; Bertil Bouillon; Christian Probst; |
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Title: The journal of trauma and acute care surgery Volume: 74 ISSN: 2163-0763 ISO Abbreviation: J Trauma Acute Care Surg Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-1-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101570622 Medline TA: J Trauma Acute Care Surg Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 387-395 Citation Subset: - |
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From the Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery (A.W., M.M., T.B., M.M., M.B., B.B., C.P.), University of Witten/Herdecke, Cologne-Merheim Medical Center, Cologne, Germany; Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (R.L.), University of Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany; Trauma Surgery Department (S.L.), University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; and Committee on Emergency Medicine, Intensive and Trauma Care (Sektion NIS) of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU). |
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