The Impact of Thoracic Trauma on Morbidity and Outcomes

The Impact of Thoracic Trauma on Morbidity and Outcomes - Cureus

Objective: The study aimed to summarize the impact of thoracic injury on mortality and morbidity in thoracic trauma patients. Material and ...

Thoracic Trauma - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

Morbidity and mortality associated with thoracic trauma are due to the disruption of respiration, circulation, or both. Respiratory compromise ...

Thoracic injuries in trauma patients: epidemiology and its influence ...

The 30-day mortality was 11% (n = 87) in patients with thoracic injury and 4.3% (n = 71) in patients without. After multivariable adjustment, a thoracic injury ...

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 ...

Very long-term effects of conservatively treated blunt thoracic trauma

Chronic chest pain negatively impacts the overall and health-related quality of life years after conservatively treated blunt thoracic trauma.

Mortality of traumatic chest injury and its predictors across sub ...

In this reviewed study, the pooled mortality rate of patients who suffered from chest trauma, using the random-effects Dersimonian-Laird model, ...

Blunt Chest Trauma: Practice Essentials, Anatomy, Pathophysiology

Blunt trauma commonly results in chest-wall injuries (eg, rib fractures). The pain associated with these injuries can make breathing difficult, ...

Impact of Chest Trauma and Overweight on Mortality and Outcome ...

The morbidity and mortality of severely injured patients are commonly affected by multiple factors. Especially, severe chest trauma has been ...

Road traffic accident-related thoracic trauma: Epidemiology, injury ...

The main objective was to investigate the epidemiology, injury pattern and outcome of patients suffering a significant RTA-related thoracic ...

Comorbidities, injury severity and complications predict mortality in ...

The thorax is a body region that is frequently and severely injured. Around two thirds of patients with multiple injuries have severe thoracic ...

Factors associated with in-hospital outcomes in 594 consecutive ...

The mortality due to these injuries is relatively high ranging from 3% to 20% (2, 3). Although many patients with blunt thoracic injuries seem ...

It is worth to notice that the preventable in-hospital mortality rate in trauma patients is between 4% and 60% worldwide., We believe that blunt thoracic trauma ...

An Analysis of Presentation, Pattern and Outcome of Chest Trauma ...

were recorded. Morbidity and mortality rates were analyzed and compared with the published literature. Chest injuries comprised 30.9 % of all ...

Medline ® Abstracts for References 1,2,8-10 of 'Initial evaluation and ...

RESULTS Mean hospitalization time was 4.5 days. Mortality rate was 1% for the patients with blunt chest trauma, 4.7% in patients with more than two rib ...

A comprehensive analysis of traumatic rib fractures: morbidity ...

This in turn results in pulmonary insufficiency. Compliance of the ribs is an equally important factor as the force of the impact to cause flail chest. In the ...

Limited Influence of Flail Chest in Patients With Blunt Thoracic Trauma

Background: Flail chest is considered as one of the most severe forms of blunt thoracic trauma. However, its actual influence on post-traumatic morbidity ...

Thoracic Trauma, Blunt, Pain Management of

In particular, rib fractures occur in up to 10% of hospitalized trauma patients and may be associated with a mortality of 3% to 13%. Injuries caused by blunt ...

The factors affecting the morbidity and mortality in chest trauma

The morbidity was seen in 30 patients (21.3%). The mortality rate was 7.8% (n=11). The high white blood cell count, high lung injury scale grade ...

Chest injuries remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality

The effects of the “blast” may also cause injury. A common example is that of a pulmonary contusion. • The physical examination should be an organized approach ...

Outcomes of Patients with Blunt Chest Trauma Encountered at

Blunt chest trauma is associated with a high risk of mortality. Respiratory complications may necessitate prolonged ventilation and result in death. The present ...