Treatment strategies,operating techniques and future directions of rib fractures
YANG Jin-liang
HUANG Gang
Abstract：Thoracic injury is currently the second leading cause of trauma-related death and rib fracture is the most common type.Currently,more and more concern and attention are gained on surgical fixations for treating rib fractures combined with flail chest.This paper summarized indications and surgical techniques of rib fractures, analyzed the relationship between flail chest death and age,injury severity score(ISS) and the number of rib frac-tures, and discussed the application of damage control theory and fast track surgery in the treatment of chest trauma.
Keywords：rib fractureflail chestdamage controlfast track surgeryoperation
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1-5 )