A Study Of Surgical Stabilization Of Rib Fractures (SSRF) In Older Patients With Severe, Non-flail Fracture Patterns
Rochester, MN
The purpose of this study is to assess whether operative management of rib fracture via SSRF is associated with improved quality of life for patients age ≥65 with a RFF high frailty risk when compared to a cohort of frail patients whose rib fracture was managed non-operatively and to evaluate the effects of SSRF on other outcomes, specifically, length of intensive care unit stay, ventilator days, ventilator-free days, discharge status, functional status on discharge, discharge facility, unanticipated readmissions, unanticipated ED visits, mortality, pleural space complications, surgical site infections, timing to SSRF from injury.