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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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Urban thoracic trauma: diagnosis and initial treatment of non-cardiac injuries in adults [PDF]

Medicinski Glasnik
This comprehensive review aims to delineate the prevailing non-cardiac thoracic injuries occurring in urban environments following initial on-site treatment and subsequent admission to hospital emergency departments.
Vasileios Leivaditis, Athanasios Papatriantafyllou, Ioanna Akrida, Michail Galanis, Emmanouil Dimopoulos, Anastasia Papaporfyriou, Benjamin Ehle, Efstratios Koletsis, Nikolaos Charokopos, George Pappas-Gogos, Francesk Mulita, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Konstantinos Tasios, Vasiliki Garantzioti, Levan Tchabashvili, Manfred Dahm, Konstantinos Grapatsas   +16 more
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Dangerous passage: the utility and accuracy of modern chest computed tomography in penetrating thoracic injuries with potential transmediastinal trajectory. [PDF]

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 2023
Sozzi M, Inaba K, Schellenberg MA, Matsushima K, Martin MJ.   +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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Understanding the Adverse Hemodynamic Effects of Serious Thoracic Injuries During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Review and Approach Based on the Campbell Diagram. [PDF]

Front Physiol, 2019
Azeli Y, Lorente Olazabal JV, Monge García MI, Bardají A.   +3 more
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Spinal fractures and/or spinal cord injuries are associated with orthopedic and internal organ injuries in proximity to the spinal injury

North American Spine Society Journal, 2021
Background: the demographics, mechanisms of injury, and concurrent injuries associated with cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal fracture and/or spinal cord injury remain poorly characterized.
Nidharshan S. Anandasivam, Nathaniel T. Ondeck, Paul S. Bagi, Anoop R. Galivanche, Andre M. Samuel, Daniel D. Bohl, Jonathan N. Grauer   +6 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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