Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome

Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome - PubMed

The current report recorded mortality of 19.9% between flail chest injury patients. Sepsis, concomitant head injury, and higher ISS are the ...

Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome: ten years ...

The current report recorded mortality of 19.9% between flail chest injury patients. Sepsis, concomitant head injury, and higher ISS are the independent risk ...

Flail Chest - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

More often it is accompanied by pulmonary contusions, hemo/pneumothorax, head injury, and occasionally major vascular injury. The mortality of flail chest ...

(PDF) Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome: ten years ...

This study aims to measure the overall mortality rate among flail chest patients and then to correlate mortality with several demographic, pathologic, and ...

Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest Management

Conversely, flail chest, the most severe form of blunt chest wall injury with mortality rates of 10 to 20%, is typically accompanied by significant pulmonary ...

Quality of life and clinical outcomes of operatively treated patients ...

Conclusions: Rib fixation for flail chest injuries can be considered a safe procedure and with low mortality rates. Future studies should focus on quality ...

Prognostic factors in flail-chest patients - Oxford Academic

Results: The mortality rate in group III was higher compared to those of groups I and II (16% vs 3.8% and 6.9%, respectively) and the difference was found to be ...

Limited Influence of Flail Chest in Patients With Blunt Thoracic Trauma

In particular, flail chest as a severe form of a serial rib fracture should be deemed to be a predictor of morbidity and mortality (9). Its incidence in ...

Flail chest: An adult case study - Mayo Clinic

Other research, including a 2013 retrospective meta-analysis, found that rib fracture stabilization resulted in better outcomes overall, including decreased ...

Flail Chest - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

It usually occurs in the setting of a high-speed motor vehicle crash and can carry a high morbidity and mortality. The outcome of flail chest injury is a ...

Flail Chest: Background, History of the Procedure, Problem

Severe blunt injury to the chest continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in both young and old trauma victims.

Management of 150 flail chest injuries: analysis of risk factors ...

Conclusions: (1) Age and hemopneumothorax did not affect mortality. (2) ISS was found to a strong predictor on outcome concerning morbidity and prolonged ...

Flail chest injury—changing management and outcomes

Approximately, 600 major chest trauma patients are treated each year with a mortality of approximately 5%. All patients admitted to the hospital ...

Traumatic rib fractures: a marker of severe injury. A nationwide study ...

The highest mortality rate was found in patients with flail chest (n=3039, 13.0%), polytrauma (n=26 898, 10.6%) and elderly patients (n=12 239, ...

Flail chest injuries: A review of outcomes and treatment practices ...

279 Citations · Impact of flail chest injury on morbidity and outcome: ten years' experience at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country · Operative ...

The Management of Flail Chest - ScienceDirect

Outcome and prognosis. The high mortality rate is primarily caused by associated injuries, such as pulmonary contusion and intra-abdominal or intracranial ...

Comparison of Rib Fracture Location for Morbidity and Mortality in ...

A flail chest is one of most challenging problems for trauma surgeons. It is usually accompanied by significant underlying pulmonary parenchymal injuries and ...

Operative vs Nonoperative Treatment of Acute Unstable Chest Wall ...

These injuries have been shown to have a high incidence of complications, including chest wall instability, severe pulmonary restriction owing ...

Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest, Management of

Conversely, flail chest (FC), the most severe form of blunt chest wall injury with mortality rates of 10% to 20%, is typically accompanied by significant PC.

Early results after operatively versus non-operatively treated flail chest

Operative fixation of a flail chest in trauma patients results in a lower rate of pneumonia, less mechanical ventilation days and shorter hospital stay.