RT Book, Section
A1 Lebenthal, Abraham
A1 von Holzen, Urs
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Burt, Bryan M.
A2 Groth, Shawn S.
A2 Loor, Gabriel
A2 Wolf, Andrea S.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1170408365
T1 Treating Traumatic Chest Injuries in a Limited Resource Setting
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170408365
RD 2024/04/18
AB Trauma  is  the  leading  cause  of  death  in  individuals  between  the  ages  of  1  and  44.  In  the  Western  world,  motor  vehicle  accidents  account  for  the  majority  of  these  deaths.  In  a  post-9/11  world,  it  is  difficult  to  argue  that  practicing  thoracic  surgeons  should  not  attain  a  core  level  of  competency  in  advanced  trauma  life  support  techniques.  Traumatic  injuries  are  categorized  as  blunt,  penetrating,  or  caustic.  Surgical  techniques  for  blunt  and  penetrating  esophageal  trauma  are  described  in  Chapters  48  and  49.  Corrosive  esophageal  injury  is  discussed  in  Chapter  50.  This  chapter  concerns  the  management  of  blunt  and  penetrating  chest  injury  in  an  emergent  setting,  whether  in  the  field,  at  a  disaster  relief  facility,  at  a  community  hospital,  or  in  other  rural  setting,  where  the  thoracic  surgeon  may  be  called  on  to  help  manage  an  acute  patient  with  traumatic  thoracic  injuries.