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Abstract
Objective: To define the diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination in patients with impaired consciousness or endotracheal intubation
to detect pelvic ring fractures and to identify those with severe bleeding.
Methods: Included in this prospective data collection with retrolective data analysis were a consecutive series of blunt trauma victims
with either a Glasgow Coma Scale ≤ 13 or tracheal intubation. Clinical examination comprised testing for stability of the
iliac wings.
Results: From 784 subjects (injury severity score 23.3 ± 17.4) 93 patients (11.9%) were found to have a pelvic ring fracture. Clinical
instability of the pelvic ring was found in 42 patients. There was only one false positive. Fifty-two fractures could not
be identified by clinical examination, including nine fractures (17%) that required surgical fracture stabilization (sensitivity
of clinical examination 44.1%). Seventeen fractures (18.3%) were associated with a blood loss larger than 20% of circulating
blood volume. Sixteen of those were identified by clinical instability of the pelvic ring (sensitivity 94.1%, specificity
97.0%, positive predictive value 38.1%, negative predictive value 99.9%).
Conclusions: Clinical examination for stability of the pelvis in this selected group of patients missed a significant number of pelvic
ring fractures including fractures that require surgical stabilization. The finding of a clinically unstable identifies most
of the patients with the pelvic ring fracture being a major source of bleeding. A stable pelvis makes pelvic ring fracture
as being the source of bleeding quite unlikely.
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