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Tracheobronchial injuries in blunt chest trauma
Introduction: Tracheobronchial injuries are uncommon but potentially fatal complication of blunt thoracic trauma harboring a high morbidity and mortality if not diagnosed early . A recent series gleaning cases from four major Trauma Center in Los Angeles nine cases in a seven- year period , but the incidence of these injuries has been increasing recently. This has been attributed to improvement...
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Thoracic injuries, in particular fractures of the ribs, are very common industrial accidents. Most often these are of a mild nature and can be effectively treated in the works first-aid room or in casualty departments. Major crush injuries of the chest may seriously endanger life on account of involvement of the respiratory mechanism. Such accidents also present an urgent surgical problem; opin...
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(1) That the apex of the lung extends about one and a half inches above the middle third of the clavicle and hence may be involved in a wound of the neck, producing all the complications of a chest wound such as emphysema, pneumothorax and hajmothoraX(2) That the lower border of the lungs lies about two fingers' breadth above the pleural reflection(3) That the main fissure of each lung is repre...
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The effectiveness of the current management of crush injury of the chest is usually measured in terms of immediate survival (Avery, M6rch, and Benson, 1956; Griffiths, 1960; Reid and Baird, 1965; Lloyd, Crampton Smith, and O'Connor, 1965; Bargh, Griffiths, and Slawson, 1967), but there are no long-term reviews of patients with this injury treated by intermittent positive pressure ventilation (I...
متن کاملThe management of chest injuries.
The mortality from chest injuries is so high due to severe physiologic imbalance that an immediate and accurate diagnosis of the injured organ and prompt treatment can salvage the patient from the strategy. This study comprises 1329 injured cases including 145 patients with crushed chests. The cause of injury was traffic accident in 537 cases (40.5%), fall or degradation in 332 cases (25%). The...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-194211650-00003