ArticleEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society2025
Comparative study of total thoracoscopic and traditional incision internal fixation for the treatment of multiple rib fractures.
Article in European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the clinical efficacy of total thoracoscopic memory alloy embracing fixator(MAEF) internal fixation surgery for multiple rib fractures.
methodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 83 patients with multiple rib fractures who underwent surgical treatment in our department from September 2020 to February 2025. The patients were divided into an observation group (total thoracoscopic group, n = 40) and a control group (traditional incision group, n = 43) according to the surgical method. The clinical data of the two groups were compared.
resultsThe operative time in the observation group was longer. However, after stratification according to the learning curve, it was found that the operative time in the observation group showed no significant difference compared with the control group after the surgical technique became proficient (P > 0.05). The pain index and partial pressure of oxygen one day before surgery, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative pleural drainage volume, and fracture healing status in the observation group showed no significant differences compared with the control group (P > 0.05). Pain scores and oxygen partial pressures on postoperative days 3 and 5 were significantly better in the observation group than in the control group(P < 0.05). The postoperative hospital stay duration was significantly shorter in the observation group than in the control group (P < 0.05).
conclusionThe total thoracoscopic MAEF internal fixation surgery for multiple rib fractures is easy to learn, causes minimal trauma, and allows for a rapid postoperative recovery. The fracture healing achieved is comparable to that of open thoracotomy surgery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.