Surgical interventions in a population of canine trauma patients

This retrospective evaluation aimed to determine signalment, injury type, trauma severity score, and outcome of canine trauma patients undergoing surgical (emergency room [ER] or operating room [OR]) and nonsurgical treatment in addition to time to surgery, specialty services involved, and cost in the OR surgery population. Medical record and hospital trauma registry data on canine trauma presenting for traumatic injury between May 2017 and July 2020 were reviewed. One thousand six hundred and thirty patients were included. Demographics and outcome were compared for canine trauma patients undergoing OR surgery (12.8%, 208/1630), ER surgery (39.1%, 637/1630), or no surgical intervention (48.2%, 785/1630). Among ...

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