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Early Chest Drain Management in Trauma
, 2016 Background: Tube thoracostomy is an essential skill, and in thoracic trauma can be lifesaving. Yet a complication rate of up to 30% has been widely reported in the literature.
MacCormick, Andrew
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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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CT as a first-line modality in elderly patients with stable blunt chest trauma
Chinese Journal of Traumatology, 2021 Purpose: Blunt thoracic injuries are common among elderly patients and may be a common cause of morbidity and death from blunt trauma injuries. We aimed to examine the impact of chest CT on the diagnosis and change of management plan in elderly patients ...
Alexander Becker +3 more
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Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 2011 Chest trauma is one important factor for total morbidity and mortality in traumatized emergency patients. The complexity of injury in trauma patients makes it challenging to provide an optimal oxygenation while protecting the lung from further ventilator-induced injury to it.
Richter, Torsten, Ragaller, Maximilian
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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 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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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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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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Epidemiology of major paediatric chest trauma
, 2009 Aim: Paediatric chest trauma is a marker of severe injury and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. However, current trends in the Australian population are unknown.
Butt, W. +3 more
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Clinical value of chest pain presentation and prodromes on the assessment of cardiovascular disease: a cohort study. [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVES: The recognition of coronary artery disease (CAD) among patients who report chest pain remains difficult in primary care. This study investigates the association between chest pain (specified, unspecified or musculoskeletal) and prodromes ...
Robson, J +9 more
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