Determinants of mortality in chest trauma patients
Nigerian Journal of Surgery, 2014 Background: Chest trauma is an important trauma globally accounting for about 10% of trauma admission and 25-50% of trauma death. Different types and severity of chest trauma in different subsets of patients with varying associated injuries result in ...
Eyo E Ekpe, C Eyo
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Delayed Aortic Valve Perforation Caused by Blunt Trauma
Diagnostics, 2023 Traumatic aortic regurgitation (AR) is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. We described the case of a 35-year-old male who presented to our hospital with shortness of breath 7 years after sustaining blunt chest trauma associated with a motorcycle ...
Kazuya Tateishi +3 more
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A Case of Traumatic Flail Chest Requiring Stabilization with Surgical Reconstruction
The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2015 Background Flail chest is the most serious complication that may occur after thoracic trauma. In this article, we present a case of flail chest caused by blunt chest trauma, which presented dramatic clinical improvement following rib fixation and chest ...
Serdar Evman +3 more
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Trauma Case Reports, 2020 Cardiac tamponade is a recognised sequelae of non-penetrating and penetrating chest trauma. Delayed cardiac tamponade has been described following blunt chest trauma.
S. Mohamed +5 more
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Delayed post-traumatic hemothorax [PDF]
Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care, 2012 Intrathoracic bleeding may occur following blunt chest trauma, and can be classified as minimal, moderate or massive, according to the amount of blood present. The diagnosis of hemothorax is established by clinical examination, plain chest radiograph or,
Sherwan R. Khoschnau +2 more
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Post-Traumatic Pulmonary Pseudocyst following Blunt Chest Trauma; a Case Report
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 Traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst is a rare complication of chest trauma that has been poorly documented and usually resolves without specific treatment. Here, we present a case of pulmonary pseudocyst in a child with chest trauma without obvious symptoms ...
Nasim Ghafourian +5 more
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Effectiveness of the STUMBL Scoring System in Predicting Outcomes of Blunt Chest Trauma Patients Admitted to the Trauma ICU: A Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Blunt chest trauma is one of the leading causes of trauma related admission to the Emergency Department (ED). Risk prediction tools are widely used to estimate patient outcomes and guide clinical decision making.
Vijayavani Palani +2 more
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MODERN ASPECTS OF DIAGNOSTICS AND TACTICS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT IN COMPLICATED TRAUMA OF THE CHEST
Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2019 Background. Closed chest trauma is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening critical conditions. Medicosocial topicality of the problem is associated with its high frequency, large number of complications (45.6% - 75%) and high mortality rate (2% -
Sushko A. A. +6 more
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Cardiac troponin I is increased in patients with polytrauma and chest or head trauma: Results of a retrospective case-control study [PDF]
Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2016 Background: We performed a retrospective case-control study to assess the values of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) in a large number of patients admitted to the emergency department (ED) with different types of trauma.
Lippi Giuseppe +3 more
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The effect of pre-injury anti-platelet therapy on the development of complications in isolated blunt chest wall trauma: a retrospective study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 INTRODUCTION: The difficulties in the management of the blunt chest wall trauma patient in the Emergency Department due to the development of late complications are well recognised in the literature.
Ceri Battle +3 more
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