Emergency department thoracotomy in children: A Pediatric Trauma Society, Western Trauma Association, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma systematic review and practice management guideline.
Journal
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
ISSN: 2163-0763
Titre abrégé: J Trauma Acute Care Surg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101570622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 09 2023
01 09 2023
Historique:
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2023
pubmed:
23
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2023
entrez:
23
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2023
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Résumé
The role of emergency department resuscitative thoracotomy (EDT) in traumatically injured children has not been elucidated. We aimed to perform a systematic review and create evidence-based guidelines to answer the following PICO (population, intervention, comparator, and outcome) question: should pediatric patients who present to the emergency department pulseless (with or without signs of life [SOL]) after traumatic injuries (penetrating thoracic, penetrating abdominopelvic, or blunt) undergo EDT (vs. no EDT) to improve survival and neurologically intact survival? Using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation methodology, a group of 12 pediatric trauma experts from the Pediatric Trauma Society, Western Trauma Association, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma assembled to perform a systematic review. A consensus conference was conducted, a database was queried, abstracts and manuscripts were reviewed, data extraction was performed, and evidence quality was determined. Evidence tables were generated, and the committee voted on guideline recommendations. Three hundred three articles were identified. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria and were used for guideline creation, providing 319 pediatric patients who underwent EDT. No data were available on patients who did not undergo EDT. For each PICO, the quality of evidence was very low based on the serious risk of bias and serious or very serious imprecision. Based on low-quality data, we make the following recommendations. We conditionally recommend EDT when a child presents pulseless with SOL to the emergency department following penetrating thoracic injury, penetrating abdominopelvic injury and after blunt injury if emergency adjuncts point to a thoracic source. We conditionally recommend against EDT when a pediatric patient presents pulseless without SOL after penetrating thoracic and penetrating abdominopelvic injury. We strongly recommend against EDT in the patient without SOL after blunt injury.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
The role of emergency department resuscitative thoracotomy (EDT) in traumatically injured children has not been elucidated. We aimed to perform a systematic review and create evidence-based guidelines to answer the following PICO (population, intervention, comparator, and outcome) question: should pediatric patients who present to the emergency department pulseless (with or without signs of life [SOL]) after traumatic injuries (penetrating thoracic, penetrating abdominopelvic, or blunt) undergo EDT (vs. no EDT) to improve survival and neurologically intact survival?
METHODS
Using Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation methodology, a group of 12 pediatric trauma experts from the Pediatric Trauma Society, Western Trauma Association, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma assembled to perform a systematic review. A consensus conference was conducted, a database was queried, abstracts and manuscripts were reviewed, data extraction was performed, and evidence quality was determined. Evidence tables were generated, and the committee voted on guideline recommendations.
RESULTS
Three hundred three articles were identified. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria and were used for guideline creation, providing 319 pediatric patients who underwent EDT. No data were available on patients who did not undergo EDT. For each PICO, the quality of evidence was very low based on the serious risk of bias and serious or very serious imprecision.
CONCLUSION
Based on low-quality data, we make the following recommendations. We conditionally recommend EDT when a child presents pulseless with SOL to the emergency department following penetrating thoracic injury, penetrating abdominopelvic injury and after blunt injury if emergency adjuncts point to a thoracic source. We conditionally recommend against EDT when a pediatric patient presents pulseless without SOL after penetrating thoracic and penetrating abdominopelvic injury. We strongly recommend against EDT in the patient without SOL after blunt injury.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37608453
doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000003879
pii: 01586154-202309000-00021
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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