Crushed chest injury and artificial ventilation.
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Traumatic asphyxia due to blunt chest trauma: a case report and literature review
INTRODUCTION Crush asphyxia is different from positional asphyxia, as respiratory compromise in the latter is caused by splinting of the chest and/or diaphragm, thus preventing normal chest expansion. There are only a few cases or small case series of crush asphyxia in the literature, reporting usually poor outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 44-year-old Caucasian man who dev...
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Diseases of the chest
دوره 50 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966