Subsequent morbidity includes prolonged immobilization and missed injuries.
To evaluate the pattern of pediatric trauma cases and their subsequent morbidity and mortality.
The fracture pattern is also relevant, as it determines treatment and may affect subsequent morbidity [11, 12].
This creates the potential for small failures that could be the substrate for subsequent morbidity or mortality.
Most authors advocate immediate laparotomy with repair of the defect because of the high incidence of associated intra-abdominal injury (up to 30%) and to avoid complications such as incarceration through or strangulation and subsequent morbidity.
The increased survival and subsequent morbidity of CDH survivors has resulted in the need to provide resources for the long-term follow-up and support of the CDH population.
Sepsis survivors frequently incur a dramatic decline in functional capacity and quality of life that can persist for years and carry a higher long-term risk of subsequent morbidity and mortality compared to age-matched controls, such as increased rates of cardiovascular events, new infections, cancer, and neurocognitive or muscular dysfunction, metabolic disturbances, and shortened lifespan [4 8].
Early diagnosis of sepsis enables timely resuscitation and antibiotics and prevents subsequent morbidity and mortality.
The incidence of limb bone fracture and subsequent morbidity and mortality due to excessive bone loss is increasing in the progressively ageing populations of both men and women.
Severe injury produces local and systemic deficits that can lead to skeletal muscle wasting and weakness, immune dysfunction, infection, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), with subsequent morbidity and mortality [1].
Up to forty percent of afflicted premature infants require intestinal resection with a mortality rate of almost fifty percent and significant subsequent morbidity (e.g., short bowel syndrome, etc) [2], [3] The cost in medical care annually is in excess of five hundred million dollars [2], [3], [4].
