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Thoracic trauma is a common occurrence and may be caused by either penetrating or blunt injury. A majority of patients with chest trauma sustain either a pneumothorax or hemothorax, and most of these injuries can be managed nonoperatively with either observation or a chest tube. Surgical intervention may still be indicated and may require a lung repair or resection. In general, blunt injuries have a lower incidence of operative requirements compared to penetrating injury; however, critical blunt thoracic injury often causes more severe and diffuse lung damage. Thus, patients who require thoracotomy following blunt trauma often require more extensive resections and are associated with higher mortality.

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Rabin, J. (2021). Lung Injury: Techniques. In: Scalea, T.M. (eds) The Shock Trauma Manual of Operative Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27596-9_9

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