Affiliation:
1. Department of Trauma and Emergency Surgery Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Chang Gung University Taoyuan Taiwan
2. Department of Trauma and Burn Surgery Stroger Hospital of Cook County Rush University Chicago Illinois USA
3. Emergency Surgical Services St. Francis Hospital OSF Healthcare System Peoria Illinois USA
Abstract
AbstractPurposeIt is well established that hollow viscus perforation leads to sepsis and acute kidney injury (AKI) in non‐trauma patients. However, the relationship between traumatic hollow viscus injury (HVI) and AKI is not well understood. Utilizing data from the National Trauma Data Bank, we investigated whether HVI serves as a risk factor for AKI. Additionally, we examined the characteristics of AKI in stable patients who underwent conservative treatment.MethodsWe reviewed blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) cases from 2012 to 2015, comparing patients with and without AKI. Significant factors from univariate analysis were tested in a multivariate logistic regression (MLR) to identify independent AKI determinants. We also analyzed subsets: patients without HVI and stable patients given conservative management.ResultsOut of the 563,040 BAT patients analyzed, 9073 (1.6%) developed AKI. While a greater proportion of AKI patients had HVI than those without AKI (13.3% vs. 5.2%, p < 0.001), this difference wasn't statistically significant in the MLR (p = 0.125). Notably, the need for laparotomy (odds = 3.108, p < 0.001) and sepsis (odds = 13.220, p < 0.001) were identified as independent risk factors for AKI. For BAT patients managed conservatively (systolic blood pressure >90 mmHg, without HVI or laparotomy; N = 497,066), the presence of sepsis was a significant predictor for the development of AKI (odds = 16.914, p < 0.001).ConclusionsWhile HVI wasn't a significant risk factor for AKI in BAT patients, the need for laparotomy was. Stable BAT patients managed conservatively are still at risk for AKI due to non‐peritonitis related sepsis.