ArticleJournal of emergencies, trauma, and shock
Major Trauma in Elderly Patients: Worse Mortality and Outcomes in an Italian Trauma Center.
Article in Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pediatric head trauma algorithm for head CT decision-making in the emergency department.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of Traumatic Injuries at a Single Regional Trauma Center in South Korea: Age-Specific and Temporal Trends (2014-2023).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparison of epidemiologic features between upper and lower limb injuries and risk factors for intensive care unit admission in a university hospital affiliated with the National Trauma Registry of Iran.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2024Article
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: From Occupational Health to Emergency Medicine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Blood Transfusion for Major Trauma in Emergency Department.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Comparative Analysis of Antithrombotic Therapy Outcomes in Mild Traumatic Brain-Injury Patients: A Focus on Bleeding Risk and Hospital-Stay Duration.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Geriatric Population Triage: The Risk of Real-Life Over- and Under-Triage in an Overcrowded ED: 4- and 5-Level Triage Systems Compared: The CREONTE (Crowding and R E Organization National TriagE) Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Association Between Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and In-hospital Mortality in Elderly Patients with Severe Trauma.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Observational
- Hypothermia: Beyond the Narrative Review-The Point of View of Emergency Physicians and Medico-Legal Considerations.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Resuscitating the Endothelial Glycocalyx in Trauma and Hemorrhagic Shock.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2023Review
- Acute Oncologic Complications: Clinical-Therapeutic Management in Critical Care and Emergency Departments.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Review
- Five Level Triage vs. Four Level Triage in a Quaternary Emergency Department: National Analysis on Waiting Time, Validity, and Crowding-The CREONTE (Crowding and RE-Organization National TriagE) Study Group.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Severe Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Critical Illness.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Heat-Related Illness in Emergency and Critical Care: Recommendations for Recognition and Management with Medico-Legal Considerations.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Pathophysiology and Therapy of High-Altitude Sickness: Practical Approach in Emergency and Critical Care.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Pediatric traumatic brain injury: a new relation between outcome and neutrophil-to-lymphocite ratio.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Observational
- Emergency Department Overcrowding: Understanding the Factors to Find Corresponding Solutions.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Dysbarism: An Overview of an Unusual Medical Emergency.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Mild Head Trauma (MHT) and Antiplatelet Therapy. Reply to Lorenzati et al. Comment on "Savioli et al. Mild Head Trauma: Is Antiplatelet Therapy a Risk Factor for Hemorrhagic Complications?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Mild Head Trauma: Is Antiplatelet Therapy a Risk Factor for Hemorrhagic Complications?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionMajor trauma is the leading cause of mortality in the world in patients younger than 40 years. However, the proportion of elderly people who suffer trauma has increased significantly. The purpose of this study is to assess the correlation of old age with mortality and other unfavorable outcomes.
methodsWe assessed on one hand, anatomical criteria such as ISS values and the number of body regions affected, on the other hand, hemodynamic instability criteria, various shock indices, and Glasgow Coma Scale. Finally, we also evaluated biochemical parameters, such as lactate, BE, and pH values. We conducted a prospective and monocentric observational study of all the patients referred to the Emergency Department of the IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico S. Matteo in Pavia for major trauma in 13 consecutive months: January 1, 2018-January 30, 2019. We compared the elderly population (>75 years) and the younger population (≤75).
resultsWe included 501 patients, among which 10% were over the age of 75 years. The mortality rate was higher among the older patients than among the younger (4% vs. 1.33%;
conclusionsThe elderly showed worse outcomes in terms of mortality, hospitalization rate, hemodynamic instability criteria, and anatomical and biochemical parameters.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.