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Chest Trauma Complications - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Pericarditis
 • Myocardial Contusion
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Chest Trauma Complications ... Wall: • Rib Fractures ... • Flail Chest ... Esophageal Injury Lung ... #Trauma #Complications
Chest Injury Score for Blunt Chest Wall Trauma
Age - 1 - Per additional 10-year increase starting
Wall Trauma Age ... age Number of rib ... Per additional rib ... fracture Chronic lung ... #Score #Blunt #Trauma
ED Thoracotomy Instructions

Getting Into the Chest:
1. Bilateral finger thoracotomies
  • 4th or 5th intercostal space
Getting Into the Chest ... • Curve along rib ... Open chest with ... bleeding vessels, lung ... procedure #emergency #trauma
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: ED Thoracotomy Instructions
1. CALL FOR HELP.
2. GATHER SUPPLIES.
   +/- Sterile gloves,
GET INTO CHEST. ... 4th ICS, along rib ... to protect the lung ... : Sternal saw, trauma ... INSIDE THE CHEST
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
EMHighAK) and Brit Long ... suffered no head trauma ... arise from blunt trauma ... trauma are diagnosed ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung
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 ... missed by non-trauma ... rob_cosentini #Flail #Chest ... clinical #video #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 ... missed by non-trauma ... rob_cosentini #Flail #Chest ... clinical #video #trauma
Pertinent Chest x-ray Findings in the Trauma Patient and Implications
Respiratory distress without x-ray findings - Central
Findings in the Trauma ... asphyxia Any rib ... of first three ribs ... Fracture of lower ribs ... cxr #chestxray #trauma
Trauma - Paradoxical Breathing in Flail Chest 
It occurs when multiple adjacent ribs are broken in
Trauma - Paradoxical ... Breathing in Flail Chest ... multiple adjacent ribs ... a part of the chest ... Breathing #Pattern #Trauma
Lung Segment Anatomy Annotated on Chest CT
Right Lung:
 • Upper Lobe: Apical, Posterior, Anterior
 • Middle
Lung Segment Anatomy ... Annotated on Chest ... CT Right Lung: ... lang=us #Lung # ... lobes #Segments #Chest