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Thoracic injuries in trauma patients: epidemiology and its influence on mortality [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Thoracic injuries are common among trauma patients. Studies on trauma patients with thoracic injuries have reported considerable differences in morbidity and mortality, and there is limited research on comparison between trauma patients with ...
Andrea Lundin, Shahzad K. Akram, Lena Berg, Katarina E. Göransson, Anders Enocson   +4 more
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Predictors of survival after emergency department thoracotomy in trauma patients with predominant thoracic injuries in Southern Israel: a retrospective survey [PDF]

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2019
Yael Refaely,1* Leonid Koyfman,2* Michael Friger,3 Leonid Ruderman,1 Mahmud Abu Saleh,1 Moti Klein,2 Evgeni Brotfain21Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; 2Department of ...
Refaely Y, Koyfman L, Friger M, Ruderman L, Abu Saleh M, Klein M, Brotfain E   +6 more
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Thoracic Injury Rule out Criteria in Prediction of Traumatic Intra-thoracic Injuries; a Validation Study [PDF]

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Doing Chest X Ray (CXR) for all trauma patients is not efficient and cost effective due to its low diagnostic value. The present study was designed aiming to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of thoracic injury rule out criteria (TIRC) in ...
Setareh Asgarzadeh, Bahareh Feizi, Farhad Sarabandi, Morteza Asgarzadeh   +3 more
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Road traffic accident-related thoracic trauma: Epidemiology, injury pattern, outcome, and impact on mortality-A multicenter observational study.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundThoracic trauma is a major cause of death in trauma patients and road traffic accident (RTA)-related thoracic injuries have different characteristics than those with non-RTA related thoracic traumas, but this have been poorly described.
Axel Benhamed, Amina Ndiaye, Marcel Emond, Thomas Lieutaud, Valérie Boucher, Amaury Gossiome, Bernard Laumon, Blandine Gadegbeku, Karim Tazarourte   +8 more
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Forensic expertise of thoracic aorta, heart and pericardial injuries in car-occupant fatalities [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2009
Introduction. Forensic expertise has not specified with certainty any specific injury among fatally injured frontal car-occupants in frontal car collisions. Objective. To establish if blunt injuries of thoracic aorta, heart, and pericardium could be used
Nikolić Slobodan
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SPINAL FRACTURES AND THORACOABDOMINAL INJURIES IN POLYTRAUMATIZED PATIENTS: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVALUATION

Coluna/Columna, 2023
Objective: Establish the frequency of incidences, management, and description of the relationship between thoracic and abdominal trauma and spinal injury.
Alan Antonelli, Álynson Larocca Kulcheski, André Luis Sebben, Felipe Negreiros Nanni, Pedro Grein Del Santoro, Marcel Luiz Benato, Xavier Soler i Graells   +6 more
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Thoracic Aortic Injuries Following Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Placement: A Retrospective Case Series

Critical Care Explorations, 2023
OBJECTIVES:. Thoracic aortic injuries from intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) are rare, and no publications exist in the context of patients awaiting heart transplantation.
Zachary Kiernan, MD, Kainuo Wu, BS, Abhishek Chaturvedi, MD, Michael C. Kontos, MD, Charlotte S. Roberts, NP, Keyur Shah, MD, Mohammed Quader, MD   +6 more
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Characteristics of rib fracture patients who require chest computed tomography in the emergency department

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background The disadvantages and complications of computed tomography (CT) can be minimized if CT is performed in rib fracture patients with high probability of intra-thoracic and intra-abdominal injuries and CT is omitted in rib fracture patients with ...
Woosik Kim, Juhyun Song, Sungwoo Moon, Jooyeong Kim, Hanjin Cho, Jonghak Park, Sungjin Kim, Sejoong Ahn   +7 more
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Thoracic Injury - Swimming

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2004
Richard Canlas, Brian E. Udermann, Mark Gibson, Angela Puchalla, Scott T. Doberstein, Dan Cavanaugh   +5 more
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Single-Center Clinical Analysis of Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injuries: A Retrospective Observational Study [PDF]

Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2021
Purpose This study investigated the clinical outcomes of trauma patients with blunt thoracic aortic injuries at a single institution. Methods During the study period, 9,501 patients with traumatic aortic injuries presented to Trauma Center of Gil Medical
Dae Sung Ma, Yang Bin Jeon
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