Open Chest Wounds and Flail Chest

Jacob J. Glaser; Carlos J. Rodriguez

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2507-0_25

Open Chest Wounds and Flail Chest

Jacob J. Glaser^*, Carlos J. Rodriguez

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Abstract

Thoracic injuries are commonly associated with penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma and are implicated in 50-70 % of trauma deaths [1]. Cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, massive hemothorax, airway obstruction, flail chest, and open pneumothorax represent the six immediately life-threatening injuries attributed to chest trauma [2]. Accordingly, they must be accurately identified and dealt with urgently.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Pages	159-162
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781493925070
ISBN (Print)	9781493925063
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2507-0_25
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chest trauma
Flail chest
Open pneumothorax
Thoracic trauma

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10.1007/978-1-4939-2507-0_25

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