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Pertinent Chest x-ray Findings in the Trauma Patient and Implications
Respiratory distress without x-ray findings - Central
Pertinent Chest ... places - Flail chest ... air leak after chest ... pattern in the chest ... NG tube in the chest
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... Embolism (chest ... Hypertension - Chest ... • Muscular Injury ... • Trauma
Flail Chest Breathing on Physical Exam
74 year-old male, fallen over in the garden. Four rib fractures.
Flail Chest Breathing ... shows a flail chest ... fractures missed by CXR ... , so use CT to identify ... rob_cosentini #Flail #Chest
Flail Chest Breathing on Physical Exam
74 year-old male, fallen over in the garden. Four rib fractures.
Flail Chest Breathing ... shows a flail chest ... fractures missed by CXR ... , so use CT to identify ... rob_cosentini #Flail #Chest
Chest Trauma Complications - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Pericarditis
 • Myocardial Contusion
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Chest Trauma Complications ... Aortic Rupture* Chest ... Fractures • Flail Chest ... Hemothorax #Chest ... #Causes
Venn Diagram - Does this patient have pneumonia?
Diagnosis is generally based on three lines of evidence:
evidence of a chest ... infiltrate (e.g., CXR ... , CT, ultrasound ... production, pleuritic chest ... pain) and signs
Chest Pain - Diagnosis and Workup Algorithm

History and Exam
Acute life-threatening causes:
 • Acute myocardial infarction
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Chest Pain - Diagnosis ... life-threatening causes ... Pneumothorax • Pulmonary ... ultrasound • CXR ... MatthewHoMD #Chest
Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest ... ) • Abnormal CXR ... refer + order CT ... #causes
Miliary Pattern - Chest Radiology
 • Miliary opacities are scattered, small (1 -4 mm) nodules
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Miliary Pattern - Chest ... diffuse inhalational injury ... Miliary #Pattern #Chest ... #CXR #clinical ... #CT
Lung infarction
In pulmonar embolism it is not common to see consolidation.
The consolidation is a result of
we see an old chest ... density on the chest ... On the CT we can ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #CTChest #LungInfarct