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Overall hospital stay was 15.9 and ICU stay 7.4\u00a0days. In hospital, mortality was 13%. SSRF did not improve hospital course or postoperative complications in the complete study cohort. However, patients with a significantly reduced GCS (7.6\u2009\u00b1\u20095.3 vs 11.22\u2009\u00b1\u20094.8; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.006) benefitted from SSRF. Matched pair analysis stratified for GCS showed shorter ICU stays (9 vs 15\u00a0days; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.005) including shorter respirator time (143 vs 305\u00a0h; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.003).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Patients with serial rib fractures and simultaneous moderate or severe traumatic brain injury benefit from surgical stabilization of rib fractures.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00068-022-01886-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,7]],"date-time":"2022-02-07T04:13:46Z","timestamp":1644207226000},"page":"3237-3242","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Surgical stabilization of serial rib fractures is advantageous in patients with relevant traumatic brain injury"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"48","author":[{"given":"Philipp","family":"Freitag","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cornelius","family":"Bechmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lars","family":"Eden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rainer","family":"Meffert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5037-054X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thorsten","family":"Walles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"1886_CR1","unstructured":"Hoefer C, Lefering R. 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