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AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 116-125Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ajag.13000
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aged; geriatrics; specialties; surgical; traumatology; wounds and injuries
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Older major trauma patients present a heterogeneous group with injury profiles and interventions changing with increasing age. The study identified five distinct injury profiles and found that the proportion of patients receiving surgical or non-surgical interventions declined with age.
Objectives This study aimed to characterise the most common injury profiles and interventions in older major trauma patients, and how they change with age. Methods This is a retrospective review of interventions, injury profiles and outcomes of major trauma patients aged 65 years and older from 2007 to 2018, using data from the Victorian State Trauma Registry. A latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify homogenous injury groups. Results The LCA identified five injury profiles: isolated head injury; chest/upper limb injuries; multi-trauma; isolated spine; and head/chest/upper limb. Among 10,001 patients, 50% had an isolated head injury, and 83% of patients received definitive treatment at a major trauma centre. 50% of patients received a surgical or non-surgical intervention, and 36% underwent surgery. These proportions declined with increasing age. Conclusions Older patients with major trauma are a heterogeneous group, whose mechanisms and patterns of injury, and clinical management change with increasing age.
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