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Chest Trauma: Classification and Influence on the General Management

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Chest trauma is one of the most common injuries in multiple trauma patients and is associated with an increased risk for the development of posttraumatic complications and an adverse outcome. This chapter summarizes specific aspects of thoracic injuries after blunt and penetrating chest trauma. Furthermore, typical diagnostic procedures and different scoring systems for classification of chest trauma are outlined. Besides general treatment algorithms for thoracic injuries, a special focus lies on the impact of chest trauma for the management of concomitant extremity injury in multiple-trauma patients. In this context, diverse surgical strategies for fracture stabilization—early total care, damage control orthopedics, early appropriate care, safe definitive surgery, and prompt individualized safe management—are presented.

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Mert, Ü., Andruszkow, H., Hildebrand, F. (2022). Chest Trauma: Classification and Influence on the General Management. In: Pape, HC., Borrelli Jr., J., Moore, E.E., Pfeifer, R., Stahel, P.F. (eds) Textbook of Polytrauma Management . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95906-7_15

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