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Blunt Trauma Injuries [PDF]

open access: possibleClinics in Sports Medicine, 2013
The evaluation and management of sports-related blunt trauma injuries is an important area that interfaces the sports medicine world with many other subspecialty areas of medicine. The goal of this special focus issue is to help keep physicians that care for athletes up to date regarding the latest developments pertaining to new technology to hasten ...
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Blunt Thoracic Trauma

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2008
Blunt thoracic trauma represents a significant portion of trauma admissions to hospitals in the United States. These injuries are encountered by physicians in many specialities such as emergency medicine, pediatrics, general surgery and thoracic surgery. Accurate diagnosis and treatment improves the chances of favorable outcomes and it is desirable for
David A. Fullerton, Michael J. Weyant
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Blunt pelvic trauma

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1988
Blunt pelvic trauma results in significant morbidity and mortality from associated genitourinary, neurological, vascular, and visceral damage. Diagnosis begins in the ED with the initial trauma evaluation. Proper treatment using a multidisciplinary approach and cooperation between orthopedist, urologist, trauma surgeon, and emergency physician should ...
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Blunt Tracheobronchial Trauma

Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2018
This article provides an overview of current literature on blunt tracheobronchial injury, and discusses the presentation of tracheobronchial injuries in clinical and radiographic forms. A review of the current data on repair is provided with an outline of surgical management.
Eric Vallières, Ealaf Shemmeri
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Blunt Chest Trauma

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
The spectrum of injuries after blunt chest trauma presents a challenging problem to the emergency physician. The clinician must select among a number of diagnostic tests and therapeutic options after the initial history and physical examination has been performed. Nine clinical entities are discussed: sternal fracture, flail chest, pulmonary contusion,
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Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1989
Blunt abdominal trauma results in potentially life-threatening injuries that require organized rapid evaluation and treatment. Resuscitation of hemodynamically unstable patients should be completed in the operating room if retroperitoneal hemorrhage is not strongly suspected.
N, Smedira, W P, Schecter
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Blunt Torso Trauma

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1977
Most blunt forces pose a simultaneous hazard to the regions of the chest and abdomen. Complications following such injuries to the torso are usually the result of delays in diagnosis or inadequate operative treatment. Successful operative treatment requires accurate hemostasis, detection of all injuries, and the application of generally accepted ...
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Blunt Chest Trauma

1985
A blunt injury to the chest may result in lesion of the chest wall as well as intrathoracic lesions such as lung contusion, heart contusion, pneumothorax and bleeding.
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Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen

Pediatrics In Review, 1996
Serious injuries remain the number one cause of death among American children. Major trauma is responsible for more than 50% of the mortality in children between the ages of 1 and 14 years. The majority of these life-threatening injuries result from blunt trauma rather than from penetrating injuries, which are much more common in adults.
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Blunt trauma to the abdomen

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1989
There is general agreement that physical examination alone is inadequate for abdominal evaluation in the multiply injured blunt trauma patient; but controversy exists regarding the preferred method of detecting intraabdominal injuries requiring celiotomy.
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