To cite: Witt CE, Bulger EM. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/tsaco-2016000064 ABSTRACT Rib fractures are common among patients sustaining blunt trauma, and are markers of severe bodily and solid organ injury. They are associated with high morbidity and mortality, including multiple pulmonary complications, and can lead to chronic p...

Rib fractures are one of main causes of chest or flank pain when related to an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF). The authors investigated the incidence and risk factors of rib fracture in 284 patients with OVCF using bone scans and evaluated the feasibility as to whether bone scans could be utilized as a useful screening tool. Hot uptake lesions on ribs were found in 122 cases...

Abstract Aim Assess if the General Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are appropriately following trust guidelines on rib fracture management. Method Data gathered from patients admitted to between March and May 2021 with any diagnosis code involving (n = 19). Exclusions: not general ICU, or who died before being extubated. Of remaining 14) data on: Results All were prescribed regular simple analgesia. ...

We report on a previously unreported site of rib stress fracture in an elite athlete. A 27 year old sweep rower, a National champion and an Olympic finalist, presented with a 3-day history of the left-side thoracic pain. Technetium 99m bone scintigraphy showed increased focal uptake of the radioisotope, leading to the diagnosis of stress injury of the anterolateral part of the sixth rib. The pr...