Flail Chest and Pulmonary Contusion

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-45

  Bastos, Renata ^a,b   Calhoon, John H ^a   Baisden, Clinton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Audie L Murphy VA Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

blunt trauma; flail chest; lung contusion; pulmonary contusion; rib fractures

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; LUNG SURFACTANT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE PLATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDICATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FLAIL CHEST; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KIRSCHNER WIRE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SEPSIS; SPIROMETRY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CONTUSIONS; FLAIL CHEST; FLUID THERAPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41949133434     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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