This paper compares the management of two groups of patients with flail chest. The 25 patients in group 1 had a flail chest without other significant injuries or shock, whereas the 57 in group 2 had a flail chest with multiple injuries, shock or both. The group 1 patients were treated ...
Contemporary Management of Flail Chest.Contemporary Management of Flail Chest.Thoracic injury is currently the second leading cause of trauma-related death and rib fractures are the most common of these injuries. Flail chest, as defined by fracture of three or more ribs in two or more places, co...
Flail chest continues to be a significant injury with serious complications. Controversy exists as to the optimal treatment. The principal dilemmas are whether the patient should be managed conservatively without mechanical ventilation, with ventilation, or via operative chest wall stabilization. This artic...
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A total of 100 cases of flail chest were studied to find out the efficiency of the anti-lung contusion regimen containing a diuretic, and an enzyme preparation for some 10 days, along with pad and strapping. There were 80 males and 20 females. Majority (71%) of patients were between 16...
Simon B, Ebert J, Bokhari F, Capella J, Emhoff T, Hayward T, et al. Management of pulmonary contusion and flail chest: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice management guideline. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012;73: S351---61....
In a series of 166 patients with nonpenetrating injuries of the chest there were 118 with fractures of ribs. Thirty-one of these were of the stove-in (flail chest) type, accompanied by paradoxical sinking-in of the chest wall during inspiratory contractions of the diaphragm. Sand bags suffice...
There were 331 males and 217 females, with an overall mean age of 43 years (range: 5–78 years). These patients were allocated into groups according to their ages, the number of fractured ribs and status, i.e. whether they were stable or unstable (flail chest). Results: The etiology ...
Surgical fixation vs nonoperative management of flail chest: a meta-analysis J Am Coll Surg, 216 (2) (2013) 302-11.e1 Google Scholar [98] S.F. Marasco, A.R. Davies, J. Cooper, D. Varma, V. Bennett, R. Nevill, et al. Prospective randomized controlled trial of operative rib fixati...
Despite the prevalence and recognized association of pulmonary contusion and flail chest (PC-FC) as a combined, complex injury pattern with interrelated pa... Bruce,Simon,James,... - 《Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery》 被引量: 460发表: 2012年 Management of acute lung injury and acute...