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CHEST INJURY: FACTORS INFLUENCING MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOME
Author(s) -
James Owen,
Allen K. Murree,
Mills R. M.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb87828.x
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory failure , chest injury , ventilation (architecture) , respiratory system , tears , intensive care medicine , surgery , emergency medicine , blunt , mechanical engineering , engineering
The experience with chest injuries managed in a regional respiratory unit from April, 1968, to August, 1970, is described. The problems associated with assessment and the need for artificial ventilation are emphasized. Factors of prognostic importance are presented, and the special significance of associated injuries to the head and to major blood vessels is dealt with in detail. Fifty‐eight patients with established or Inevitable respiratory failure following chest injury were treated. Forty‐seven of these needed artificial ventilation. Eleven deaths occurred; five were due to intracerebral lesions, and two were due to tears of the thoracic aorta.