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Background: Damage control orthopedics (DCO) was proposed to minimize the second hit of extensive surgical procedures in severely injured patients when treated with early fracture fixation (early total care [ETC]). The impact of DCO and ETC on the outcomes of severely injured patients sustaining femoral shaft fractures (FSFs) is unclear. We hypothesized that DCO is associated with lower mortality and decreased incidence of complications compared with ETC.
Methods: The Trauma Quality Improvement Project database was queried from 2007 to 2021. Adult patients 14 years or older with FSF and Injury Severity Score of >15 were included. Patients were divided into ETC and DCO groups and stratified according to fracture type: open or closed. The primary outcomes included acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute kidney injury (AKI), severe sepsis, deep venous thrombosis (DVT), and mortality. Inverse probability treatment of weighting was used to balance the two cohorts of interest. A binomial logistic regression analysis was performed after inverse probability treatment of weighting to identify potential associations between the type of fixation procedure and the outcomes of interest.
Results: A total of 44,577 FSF patients were included. Mortality was 2.1%. No survival advantage was observed in the DCO group (odds ratio [OR], 0.92). However, significant associations between DCO and the risk of ARDS (OR, 1.64), AKI (OR, 1.57), severe sepsis (OR, 1.64), and DVT (OR, 1.64) were identified. Damage control orthopedics was not associated with decreased mortality after stratifying patients according to the fracture type and the type of operation.
Conclusion: Damage control orthopedics is not associated with improved survival of severely injured patients with FSF. Damage control orthopedics is associated with an increased risk of ARDS, AKI, severe sepsis, and DVT compared with ETC. These findings persisted after analyzing the type of fracture. These results are significant for clinical practice, as more patients could be treated by ETC when compensated physiologically, independent of the fracture type.
Level Of Evidence: Therapeutic/Care Management; Level IV.
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