A chest injury , also known as chest trauma , is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injury accounted for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. Usually a chest injury is caused by a blunt mechanism such as a motor vehicle crash or penetration mechanism such as pricking.
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Classification
Chest injuries can be classified as blunt or penetrating. Blunt and translucent injuries have different pathophysiology and clinical programs.
Specific types of injuries include:
- Injury to the chest wall
- Contusion of chest wall or hematoma.
- Rib fracture
- Flail chest
- Solid fracture
- Fracture of the shoulder girdle
- Lung injury (lung injury) and injury involving the pleural space
- bruised lung
- Pulmonary Laseration
- Pneumothorax
- Hemothorax
- Hemopneumothorax
- Airway injury
- Trakeobronkial rips
- Heart injury
- Pericardial Tamponade
- bruises
- Traumatic capture
- Hemopericardium
- Injury to the blood vessels
- Traumatic aortic rupture
- Thoracic aortic injury
- Aortic dissection
- And injury to other structures inside the torso
- Esophageal injury (Boerhaave syndrome)
- Diaphragmatic Injuries
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Diagnosis
Most blunt injuries are managed with relatively simple interventions such as tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation and the insertion of a chest tube. The diagnosis of a blunt injury may be more difficult and requires additional investigation such as a CT scan. Transparent injuries often require surgery, and complicated examinations are usually not required for diagnosis. Patients with penetrating trauma can deteriorate rapidly, but can also recover faster than patients with blunt injuries.
See also
Transmittent wounds
References
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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