ALLMedicine™ Rib Fracture Center

Apr 23rd, 2021 - Predicting rib fracture patients that will require higher-level care is a challenge during patient triage. Percentage of predicted forced vital capacity (FVC%) incorporates patient-specific factors to customize the measurements to each patient. A ...

Apr 5th, 2021 - Surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF) has been correlated with improved outcomes, including decreased length of stay (LOS). We hypothesized that an SSRF consultation service would increase the frequency of SSRF and improve outcomes. A pro...

Mar 16th, 2021 - To assess the diagnostic performance of chest CT in the detection of rib fractures in children investigated for suspected physical abuse (SPA). Medline, Web of Science and Cochrane databases were searched from January 1980 to April 2020. The QUADA...

Mar 11th, 2021 - Background: Radiation-induced chest wall pain (CWP) and rib fracture (RF) are late adverse effects after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for stage i non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, the literature about their incidence and r...

Mar 6th, 2021 - Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for internal fixation of rib fracture is a promising approach for treating rib fractures and flail chest. Currently, the standard practice is to make one or several incisions on the chest wall, which wil...

Dec 3rd, 2016 - Consensus statement: Surgical stabilization of rib fractures rib fracture colloquium clinical practice guidelines.|2016|Pieracci FM,Majercik S,Ali-Osman F,Ang D,Doben A,|methods,surgery,surgery,surgery,

Oct 23rd, 2014 - Rib fracture is the most common thoracic injury, present in 10% of all traumatic injuries and almost 40% of patients who sustain severe nonpenetrating trauma. Although rib fractures can produce significant morbidity, the diagnosis of associated co...

Apr 23rd, 2021 - Predicting rib fracture patients that will require higher-level care is a challenge during patient triage. Percentage of predicted forced vital capacity (FVC%) incorporates patient-specific factors to customize the measurements to each patient. A ...

Apr 5th, 2021 - Surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF) has been correlated with improved outcomes, including decreased length of stay (LOS). We hypothesized that an SSRF consultation service would increase the frequency of SSRF and improve outcomes. A pro...

Mar 16th, 2021 - To assess the diagnostic performance of chest CT in the detection of rib fractures in children investigated for suspected physical abuse (SPA). Medline, Web of Science and Cochrane databases were searched from January 1980 to April 2020. The QUADA...

Mar 11th, 2021 - Background: Radiation-induced chest wall pain (CWP) and rib fracture (RF) are late adverse effects after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for stage i non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, the literature about their incidence and r...

Mar 9th, 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...

Mar 9th, 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.

Jul 26th, 2015 - The Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) tool was effective in a validation study, suggesting it can help clinicians distinguish between abusive head trauma (AHT) and accidental head trauma. The six clinical features included in PredAHT are ri...