Pediatric trauma and emergency surgery : an international cross-sectional survey among WSES members

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BACKGROUND: In contrast to adults, the situation for pediatric trauma care from an international point of view and the global management of severely injured children remain rather unclear. The current study investigates structural management of pediatric trauma in centers of different trauma levels as well as experiences with pediatric trauma management around the world.

METHODS: A web-survey had been distributed to the global mailing list of the World Society of Emergency Surgery from 10/2021-03/2022, investigating characteristics of respondents and affiliated hospitals, case-load of pediatric trauma patients, capacities and infrastructure for critical care in children, trauma team composition, clinical work-up and individual experiences with pediatric trauma management in response to patients´ age. The collaboration group was subdivided regarding sizes of affiliated hospitals to allow comparisons concerning hospital volumes. Comparable results were conducted to statistical analysis.

RESULTS: A total of 133 participants from 34 countries, i.e. 5 continents responded to the survey. They were most commonly affiliated with larger hospitals (> 500 beds in 72.9%) and with level I or II trauma centers (82.0%), respectively. 74.4% of hospitals offer unrestricted pediatric medical care, but only 63.2% and 42.9% of the participants had sufficient experiences with trauma care in children ≤ 10 and ≤ 5 years of age (p = 0.0014). This situation is aggravated in participants from smaller hospitals (p < 0.01). With regard to hospital size (≤ 500 versus > 500 in-hospital beds), larger hospitals were more likely affiliated with advanced trauma centers, more elaborated pediatric intensive care infrastructure (p < 0.0001), treated children at all ages more frequently (p = 0.0938) and have higher case-loads of severely injured children < 12 years of age (p = 0.0009). Therefore, the majority of larger hospitals reserve either pediatric surgery departments or board-certified pediatric surgeons (p < 0.0001) and in-hospital trauma management is conducted more multi-disciplinarily. However, the majority of respondents does not feel prepared for treatment of severe pediatric trauma and call for special educational and practical training courses (overall: 80.2% and 64.3%, respectively).

CONCLUSIONS: Multi-professional management of pediatric trauma and individual experiences with severely injured children depend on volumes, level of trauma centers and infrastructure of the hospital. However, respondents from hospitals at all levels of trauma care complain about an alarming lack of knowledge on pediatric trauma management.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

World journal of emergency surgery : WJES - 18(2023), 1 vom: 13. Jan., Seite 6

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Reichert, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Sartelli, Massimo [VerfasserIn]
Askevold, Ingolf H [VerfasserIn]
Braun, Jaqueline [VerfasserIn]
Weigand, Markus A [VerfasserIn]
Hecker, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Agnoletti, Vanni [VerfasserIn]
Coccolini, Federico [VerfasserIn]
Catena, Fausto [VerfasserIn]
Padberg, Winfried [VerfasserIn]
Riedel, Jens G [VerfasserIn]
Hecker, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
WSES pediatric emergency surgery collaboration group [VerfasserIn]
Dogjani, Agron [Sonstige Person]
Kuriyama, Akira [Sonstige Person]
Porcu, Alberto [Sonstige Person]
Martínez-Pérez, Aleix [Sonstige Person]
Coppola, Alessandro [Sonstige Person]
Spolini, Alessandro [Sonstige Person]
Giordano, Alessio [Sonstige Person]
Kyriakidis, Alexandros [Sonstige Person]
Mohamedahmed, Ali Yasen Y [Sonstige Person]
Vasilopoulou, Anastasia [Sonstige Person]
Zakaria, Andee Dzulkarnaen [Sonstige Person]
Balla, Andrea [Sonstige Person]
Fette, Andreas [Sonstige Person]
Litvin, Andrey [Sonstige Person]
Guariniello, Anna [Sonstige Person]
Isik, Arda [Sonstige Person]
Kechagias, Aristotelis [Sonstige Person]
Mitul, Ashrarur Rahman [Sonstige Person]
De Simone, Belinda [Sonstige Person]
Zampogna, Biagio [Sonstige Person]
Sensi, Bruno [Sonstige Person]
Gazia, Carlo [Sonstige Person]
Seretis, Charalampos [Sonstige Person]
Brooke, Cristine [Sonstige Person]
Luppi, Davide [Sonstige Person]
Coletta, Diego [Sonstige Person]
Sasia, Diego [Sonstige Person]
Corallino, Diletta [Sonstige Person]
Chatzipetris, Dimitrios [Sonstige Person]
Schizas, Dimitrios [Sonstige Person]
Lostoridis, Eftychios [Sonstige Person]
Hsabo, Elmuiz A [Sonstige Person]
Kaouras, Emmanouil [Sonstige Person]
Schneck, Emmanuel [Sonstige Person]
Pinotti, Enrico [Sonstige Person]
Dimitrov, Evgeni [Sonstige Person]
D'Acapito, Fabrizio [Sonstige Person]
Saraceno, Federica [Sonstige Person]
Abu-Zidan, Fikri [Sonstige Person]
Silvestri, Francesca Maria [Sonstige Person]
Favi, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Fleres, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Mulita, Francesk [Sonstige Person]
Nita, Gabriela [Sonstige Person]
Martines, Gennaro [Sonstige Person]
Mazzarella, Gennaro [Sonstige Person]
Perrone, Gennaro [Sonstige Person]
Giraudo, Giorgio [Sonstige Person]
Bacchiocchi, Giulia [Sonstige Person]
Argenio, Giulio [Sonstige Person]
Brisinda, Giuseppe [Sonstige Person]
Currò, Giuseppe [Sonstige Person]
Palomba, Giuseppe [Sonstige Person]
Fraga, Gustavo P [Sonstige Person]
Hamid, Hytham K S [Sonstige Person]
Katsaros, Ioannis [Sonstige Person]
Negoi, Ionut [Sonstige Person]
Tochie, Joel Noutakdie [Sonstige Person]
Davies, Justin [Sonstige Person]
Kok, Kenneth Y Y [Sonstige Person]
Apostolou, Konstantinos G [Sonstige Person]
Lasithiotakis, Konstantinos [Sonstige Person]
Tsekouras, Konstantinos [Sonstige Person]
Sydorchuk, Larysa [Sonstige Person]
Siragusa, Leandro [Sonstige Person]
Solaini, Leonardo [Sonstige Person]
Ferrario, Luca [Sonstige Person]
Buonomo, Luis [Sonstige Person]
Walędziak, Maciej [Sonstige Person]
Gachabayov, Mahir [Sonstige Person]
Bulanauca, Maloni [Sonstige Person]
Agrawal, Manish Kumar [Sonstige Person]
Ceresoli, Marco [Sonstige Person]
Ranucci, Maria Chiara [Sonstige Person]
Petridou, Maria [Sonstige Person]
D'Oria, Mario [Sonstige Person]
Veroux, Massimiliano [Sonstige Person]
Frountzas, Maximos [Sonstige Person]
Teuben, Michel Paul Johan [Sonstige Person]
Bala, Miklosh [Sonstige Person]
Minger, Mirja Amadea [Sonstige Person]
Gonçalves, Miroslava [Sonstige Person]
Sharma, Natasha [Sonstige Person]
Tamini, Nicolò [Sonstige Person]
Medappil, Noushif [Sonstige Person]
Ioannidis, Orestis [Sonstige Person]
Bisagni, Pietro [Sonstige Person]
Rahim, Razrim [Sonstige Person]
Gonsaga, Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira [Sonstige Person]
Ragozzino, Roberta [Sonstige Person]
Bini, Roberto [Sonstige Person]
Cammarata, Roberto [Sonstige Person]
Sydorchuk, Ruslan [Sonstige Person]
Di Saverio, Salomone [Sonstige Person]
Awad, Selmy S [Sonstige Person]
Atici, Semra Demirli [Sonstige Person]
Meric, Serhat [Sonstige Person]
Chowdhury, Sharfuddin [Sonstige Person]
Xenaki, Sofia [Sonstige Person]
Pintar, Tadeja [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Appendicitis
Children
Emergency
Emergency surgery
Injury
Journal Article
Pediatric surgery
Pediatric trauma
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trauma surgery
WSES

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Date Completed 17.01.2023

Date Revised 17.02.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13017-022-00473-5

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Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351507221