Apostolos Kolitsas

Jul 3, 2024 | americanjournalofsurgery.com | Elliot Williams |Meghan Lewis |Elizabeth Benjamin |Apostolos Kolitsas

Preperitoneal pelvic packing (PPP) has been advocated as a damage control procedure for pelvic fracture bleeding, despite of weak evidence. Matched cohort study, TQIP database. Patients with isolated severe blunt pelvic fractures (pelvis abbreviated injury score [AIS] ≥ 3, AIS ≤2 in all other body regions) were included. Patients who underwent PPP were matched to patients with no PPP, 1:3 nearest propensity score.