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Chest Trauma
Assessment and management of thoracic injury, built around a case scenario: the immediately life-threatening injuries to find in the primary survey, and the potentially lethal ones found in the secondary survey.
What this lecture covers
- Epidemiology and mechanism, blunt and penetrating
- Rib fracture as the commonest sign of blunt thoracic injury
- Restraining devices in motor vehicle collisions
- Types of chest injury and the pathophysiology behind each
- Immediately life-threatening injuries in the primary survey
- Potentially life-threatening injuries in the secondary survey
- Associated injuries to look for
- General management and indications for thoracotomy
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