ALLMedicine™ Rib Fracture Center

Aug 1st, 2021 - Blast is a complex phenomenon which needs to be understood, especially in a military framework, where this kind of loading can have severe consequences on the human body. Indeed, the literature lists a number of studies which try to investigate th...

Jun 13th, 2021 - The gold standard for rib fracture nonunion management remains a matter of debate. Operative treatment of rib fracture nonunion has become increasingly popular. A 69-year-old man was operatively treated with intercostal neurectomy of the left eigh...

Jun 5th, 2021 - Rib fractures are injuries commonly assessed in trauma wards. Deep learning has demonstrated state-of-the-art accuracy for a variety of tasks, including image classification. This paper assesses the speed-accuracy trade-offs and general suitabilit...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The aim of this study is to define the cost of rib fracture hospitalization by single, multiple, and flail type using a nationally representative sample. The national inpatient sample (NIS) was used to identify patients with a primary diagnosis of...

May 31st, 2021 - Rib Fracture Fixation: Where and What is the Baseline?|2021|Balogh ZJ,|

Feb 5th, 2020 - A prospective randomized, double blinded trial of ketamine use in adult and elderly blunt trauma patients with associated rib fractures admitted to the trauma service will be conducted. Examples of blunt mechanisms include assault, falls, motor ve...

Feb 27th, 2019 - Thoracotomy is known as one of the most painful surgery. Thus, there is a development to reduce surgical stress in terms of operation technique, which is video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Although it has reduced postoperative pain and complica...

Feb 12th, 2019 - Rib fracture are the most common serious injury following blunt trauma, and occur in approximately 10% of trauma patients [1]. Despite improvements in the care of rib fracture patients, outcomes remain poor and have not changed substantially over ...

Feb 13th, 2017 - The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether continuous PVB is equal in efficacy to epidural anesthesia in terms of analgesia in patients with INR lower than 1.2, or is continuous ICNB equal in efficacy to PCA in terms of analgesi...

Jul 1st, 2011 - Rib fractures are a painful and disabling injury commonly found among trauma patients. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 300,000 people with rib fractures were treated in emergency and ambulatory care department...

Mar 10th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Two groups of high-risk rib fracture patients, the elderly and those with flail chest, have better outcomes at trauma centers than at non-trauma centers, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 504,085 rib fracture c...

Jan 12th, 2018 - ORLANDO – Deteriorating forced vital capacity (FVC) levels predict heightened risk of complications in rib fracture patients, according to a study presented at the annual scientific assembly Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Daily, ea.

Jan 31st, 2016 - SAN ANTONIO – A new pain relief option for multiple rib fractures means that you might not have to wait around anymore for anesthesiology to place thoracic epidurals. It’s called posterior paramedian subrhomboidal (PoPS) analgesia.

Oct 19th, 2015 - CHICAGO – Ketamine is a safe and simple alternative to epidural anesthesia for pain control in the setting of multiple rib fractures, investigators from the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx (N. Y.

Oct 5th, 2015 - A standardized protocol for screening children with suspected sentinel injuries – those suggesting risk for child abuse – could increase the accurate identification of abused children and reduce missed cases, new research suggests. “It has been we.