Complete bilateral tracheobronchial disruption in a child with blunt chest trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1478-1481

  Fabia, Renata B ^a   Arthur, L Grier ^a   Phillips, Alistair ^b   Galantowicz, Mark E ^b   Caniano, Donna A ^a  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANNULATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CRUSH TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STERNOTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL RUPTURE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHUS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67649641590     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180340e4e     Document Type: Article

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