Chest tube decompression of blunt chest injuries by physicians in the field: Effectiveness and complications

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-101

  Schmidt, Ulf ^a   Stalp, Michael ^a   Gerich, Thorsten ^a   Blauth, Michael ^a   Maull, Kimball I ^b   Tscherne, Harald ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Effectiveness; Prehospital; Tube thoracostomy

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

EID: 0031950672     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199801000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Mattox KL. Thoracic injury requiring surgery. World J Surg. 1983;7:49-55.
2. Mattox KL, Allen MK. Systematic approach to pneumothorax, haemothorax, pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema. Injury. 1986;17:309-312. Symposium paper.
3. Enderson BL, Abdalla R, Frame SB, Casey MT, Gould H, Maull KI. Tube thoracostomy for occult pneumothorax: a prospective randomized study of its use. J Trauma. 1993; 35:726-730.
4. Thoracic trauma. In: Advanced Trauma Life Support. 1993 Student Manual. Chicago, Ill: American College of Surgeons; 1993:111-125.
5. Barton ED, Epperson M, Hoyt DB, Fortlage D, Rosen P. Prehospital needle aspiration and tube thoracostomy in trauma victims: a six-year experience with aeromedical crews. J Emerg Med. 1995;13:155-163.
6. Coats TJ, Wilson AW, Xeropotamous N. Prehospital management of patients with severe thoracic injury. Injury. 1995;9:581-585.
7. Demartines N, Kiener A, Scheidegger D, Harder F. Drainage thoracique sur les lieux d'accidents. Helv Chir Acta 1990;57:273-277.
8. Lechleuthner A, Boullion B, Neugebauer E, Mennigen R, Tiling T. Prehospital chest tubes: incidence and analysis of iatrogenic injuries in the Emergency Medical Service Cologne. Theor Surg. 1994;9:220-226.
9. York D, Kramer C, Dudek L, Dries D, Marshall W. Aeromedical protocol for tube thoracostomy. J Air Med Trans. 1989;10:76.
10. Baldt MM, Bankier AA, Germann PS, Pöschl GP, Skrbensky GT, Herold CJ. Complications after emergency tube thoracostomy: assessment with CT. Radiology. 1995; 195:539-543.
11. Peters S, Wolter D, Schultz J-H. Gefahren und Risiken der Thoraxdrainage. Unfallchirurg. 1996;99:953-957.
12. Schöchl H, Hofmann K, Bunauer A, Neureiter J, Chmelizek F. Präklinische Versorgung des schweren Thoraxtraumas mittels Pleuradrainage. Notfallmedizin. 1994;6:310-315.
13. David A, Biesing C, Kampelmann H. Thorax-Saugdrainagen bei der Erstversorgung von Brustkorbverletzungen. Notfallmedizin. 1985;11:1481-1489.
14. Millikan JS, Moore EE, Steiner E, Aragon GE, Van Way CE III. Complications of tube thoracostomy for acute trauma. Am J Surg. 1980;140:738-741.
15. Mattox KL. Prehospital care of the patient with an injured chest. Surg Clin North Am. 1989;69:21-29.
16. Eddy AC, Luna GK, Copass M. Empyema thoracis in patients undergoing emergent closed tube thoracostomy for thoracic trauma. Am J Surg. 1989;157:494-497.