Table 1.
Premanagement data of the 10 patients with flail chest on admission and paired matched patients.
| Medical group | Surgical group |
P value (paired sample) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex ratio (n males, %)(1) | 8 80% | 8 80% | 1 |
| Age(1) | 50.5 ± 12.5 | 47.9 ± 10.6 | 0.48 |
| Number of ribs fractured(1) | 6.6 ± 2.9 | 7.7 ± 2.4 | 0.39 |
| Abdominal injury (n, %)(1) | 2 20% | 2 20% | 1 |
| Neurological injury (n, %)(1) | 5 50% | 5 50% | 1 |
| Vertebral injury(1) | 4 40% | 6 60% | 0.69 |
| Hemothorax (n, %) | 7 70% | 8 80% | 1 |
| Pneumothorax (n, %) | 8 80% | 8 80% | 1 |
| Pulmonary contusion | 9 90% | 8 80% | 1 |
| Arm trauma(1) | 6 60% | 6 60% | 1 |
| Limb trauma(1) | 3 30% | 2 20% | 1 |
| Glasgow score | 14.4 ± 1.6 | 14.0 ± 2.1 | 1 |
| ISS | 26.1 ± 6.2 | 28.6 ± 8.7 | 0.41 |
| RTS | 7.7 ± 0.2 | 7.3 ± 0.7 | 0.12 |
| TRISS | 7.6 ± 7.1 | 11.4 ± 15.3 | 1 |
ISS: injury severity score, RTS: revised trauma score, and TRISS: trauma injury severity score.
(1)Matching criteria.