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A chest injury, also known as chest trauma, is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injuries account for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. [ 1 ] Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as direct, indirect, compression, contusion, deceleration, or blasts [ 2 ] caused by ...
Generally, diseases outlined within the ICD-10 codes S00-S09 within Chapter XIX: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes should be included in this category. Chest trauma is an injury to the chest .
Flail chest is usually associated with significant pulmonary contusion, [15] and the contusion, rather than the chest wall injury, is often the main cause of respiratory failure in people with these injuries. [69] Other indications of thoracic trauma may be associated, including fracture of the sternum and bruising of the chest wall. [63]
[1] [9] As the lung contusion clears (usually within two to four days), lacerations begin to become visible on chest X-ray. [3] CT scanning is more sensitive and better at detecting pulmonary laceration than X-rays are, [1] [5] [12] [15] and often reveals multiple lacerations in cases where chest X-ray showed only a contusion. [12]
A blunt cardiac injury is an injury to the heart as the result of blunt trauma, typically to the anterior chest wall.It can result in a variety of specific injuries to the heart, the most common of which is a myocardial contusion, which is a term for a bruise (contusion) to the heart after an injury. [1]
Costochondritis, also known as chest wall pain syndrome or costosternal syndrome, is a benign inflammation of the upper costochondral (rib to cartilage) and sternocostal (cartilage to sternum) joints. 90% of patients are affected in multiple ribs on a single side, typically at the 2nd to 5th ribs. [1]
Most TBI that results from blunt trauma occurs within the chest. [10] The most common tracheal injury is a tear near the carina or in the membranous wall of the trachea. [15] In blunt chest trauma, TBI occurs within 2.5 cm of the carina 40–80% of the time. [2]
Often another injury such as pulmonary contusion masks the injury on the X-ray film. [6] Half the time, initial X-rays are normal; in most of those that are not, hemothorax or pneumothorax is present. [4] A nasogastric tube from the stomach may appear on the film in the chest cavity; this sign is pathognomonic for diaphragmatic rupture, but it ...