Do simple beside lung function tests predict morbidity after rib fractures?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 473-477

  Butts, Christopher A ^a   Brady, John J ^a   Wilhelm, Sara ^b   Castor, Laura ^b   Sherwood, Alicia ^b   McCall, Abby ^b   Patch, John ^b   Jones, Pamela ^b   Cortes, Vicente ^b   Ong, Adrian W ^b  

^a PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Reading Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Incentive spirometry; Peak expiratory flow rate; Rib fracture

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCENTIVE SPIROMETER; INCENTIVE SPIROMETRY VOLUME; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PEAK FLOWMETER; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SPIROMETRY; THORACOSTOMY; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RIB FRACTURES; SPIROMETRY; THORACOSTOMY;

EID: 85007337205     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.11.026     Document Type: Article

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