Valutazione epidemiologica e terapeutica dei traumi toraco-addominali.

The Varese's Circolo Hospital is qualified as a second level Emergency and Admittance Department (DEA), that is a structure able to face any traumatic lesions round the clock. A 118 operations Center is lovated inside this structure. Trauma assistance management should be guaranteed by the application of shared protocols and by the synergy between the above mentioned structures. There are no current data about major thoraco-abdominal traumas incidence in the catchment area of Varese. The aim of the study is the epidemiological evaluation and the knowledge of surgical therapeutic course of patients with traumatic thoraco-abdominal lesions. One hundred sixty-seven patients with major thoracic and thoraco-abdominal traumas, admitted into Varese Hospital between January 2007 and August 2009, were included in the study.