While in civil practice grave thoracic injuries are relatively infrequent, in military prac- tice chest wounds assume serious and significant importance. (nih.gov)
The statistics presented on the frequency and mortality of chest wounds in warfare clearly emphasize the sig- nificance of such injuries and justify their serious and timely consideration. (nih.gov)
Although the fundamental principles involved in the management of chest wounds occurring in civil life may be applicable to those occurring in military practice, considerable differences exist in these two types of injuries and in the problems respectively entailed. (nih.gov)
Rupture of the intrathoracic trachea and bronchi is now a well-recognized complication of nonpenetrating injuries of the chest. (jamanetwork.com)
Stab wounds3
Unless treated on time, acute traumatic diaphragmatic injury due to stab wounds has a high mortality and morbidity rate, with an increasing trend in the presence of organ herniation. (bvsalud.org)
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed our institutional database of patients who were admitted with stab wounds between Oc-tober 2012 and 2022. (bvsalud.org)
In a review of 711 patients with penetrating cardiac trauma, this series noted 54% sustained stab wounds and 42% had gunshot wounds. (doctorlib.info)
Mortality6
The total mortality in this series was 8 per cent, whereas that in the chest wounds was 56 per cent and second only to that of abdominal wounds (68 per cent). (nih.gov)
While the total mortality was 7.73 per cent, that of chest wounds was 24.05 per cent. (nih.gov)
The mortality of chest wounds inflicted during warfare varies according to dif- ferent authors but the proportion of chest wounds to all others, even in past wars, seems to bear a remarkable uniformity. (nih.gov)
That definite progress has been made in the management of war wounds of the chest is re- vealed by the decreasing mortality statistics quoted by Ranson (351) for various wars since the Crimean. (nih.gov)
In the last World War the mortality statistics for patients admitted with chest wounds varied considerably and depended to a great extent upon the source of material. (nih.gov)
Duval (115) found a general mortality of 20 per cent in a collected series of 3,453 cases of chest wounds sustained during the last war and reported by thirty-seven authors. (nih.gov)
Chest8
Reviewing war wounds in 11,000,000 men of English, French, American, and German nationalities, Hoche (210) found that the chest was involved in 6 per cent and was preceded in frequency of involvement only by the limbs and the head, face, and neck. (nih.gov)
Soltau (404) found that during the last World War, chest wounds comprised about 3.5 per cent of all casualties admitted to the casualty clearing stations. (nih.gov)
Sauerbruch (374) stated that of 300 sol- diers dying on the battlefield, 37 per cent showed wounds of the chest. (nih.gov)
According to Crafoord (95), chest wounds cause from 30 to 4o per cent of all fatalities in war. (nih.gov)
According to Ranson (351), 1 wound in every 12 is of the chest. (nih.gov)
In the Sino-Japanese War, he found that chest wounds constituted 9.7 per cent of the total admissions to a base hospital in Shanghai. (nih.gov)
Obviously consider- able difficulties exist in the attempt to estimate the number of fatalities in the field due to chest wounds. (nih.gov)
As statistical figures upon chest wounds during the last World War may be found in the reports of numerous others (134, 152, 160, 201, 263, 264, 290, 367), no useful purpose is gained by quoting these further. (nih.gov)
Injury2
A non-traumatic brain injury, or an ABI, causes damage from internal factors like being exposed to toxins, lack of oxygen, or from a tumor. (greaterwaterburyimagingcenter.org)
Cardiac injury may account for 10% of deaths from gunshot wounds. (doctorlib.info)
Medicine1
1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536-0084. (nih.gov)
Patients2
As a result of improvements in body armor and the establishment of excellent medical care at the battlefield, mortal thoracic wounds seem to have decreased, allowing many patients who previously would have died to live long enough to receive treatment. (medscape.com)
In this study, we aimed to investigate the efficacy of diagnostic laparoscopy in patients with an anterior thoracoabdominal stab wound and to compare the follow-up outcomes of cases. (bvsalud.org)
Trauma1
Objetivo: Generar recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible acerca del manejo de personas con trauma ocular. (bvsalud.org)
Treatment1
Hill performed the first cardiorrhaphy in the United States in 1902 and initiated the modern treatment of the wounded heart. (medscape.com)