Long-term outcomes of surgical rib fixation in patients with flail chest and multiple rib fractures
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Surgical treatment of flail chest and rib fractures.
Despite significant advances in critical care management, flail chest remains a clinically significant finding, with a mortality rate of up to 33%. Nonsurgical management is associated with prolonged ventilator support, pneumonia, respiratory difficulties, and lengthy stays in the intensive care unit, as well as chronic pain from nonunion and malunion of the bony thorax. Treatment with aggressi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2397-5776
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000546