Epidemiology and Determinants of Short-Term Outcome in Critically Ill Patients With Near-Hanging Injury

Versailles Hospital900 enrolled

Overview

Near-Hanging is a catastrophic event that has been merely studied in the literature. We aimed to report the outcomes, and early predictors of hospital survivors in critically ill patients with near-hanging. Patients admitted to 31 university or university-affiliated participating ICUs in France and Belgium between 1992 and 2014 were studied retrospectively. Hospital survival was the main judgment criterion.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

900

Conditions

Near Hanging

Interventions

logistic regressionOTHER

To identify associations between factors listed in Table 1 and hospital survival, we used logistic regression

Eligibility

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Inclusion Criteria: * any of the following code corresponding in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision: Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation (X70). Local investigators reviewed the medical records of the patients thus identified to select adults admitted to the ICU after successfully resuscitated near-hanging injury. * older than 18 years * requiring ICU management Exclusion Criteria: \-

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Hospital survival

Survival rate at hospital discharge

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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