Open AccessSurgical treatment ofpatients with severe non-flail chest rib fractures
Author(s) -
Jianpeng Zhang,
Lin Sun,
Weiqiang Li,
Yanyu Wang,
Xin-Zhen Li,
Yang Liu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i22.3718
Subject(s) - medicine , flail chest , surgery , respiratory distress , quality of life (healthcare) , conservative treatment , internal fixation , nursing
Many patients have inadequate long-term analgesia, respiratory distress, and hypoxemia due to a long-standing substantial smoking history or the presence of primary pulmonary diseases; analgesic treatment is not valid in these patients. Even if the imaging findings of rib fractures are relatively mild, rib fractures may cause severe position limitation, respiratory distress, and hypoxemia.