ALLMedicine™ Rib Fracture Center

Sep 9th, 2020 - 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 risk factors ...

Sep 6th, 2020 - There is missing knowledge about the association of obesity and mortality in patients with rib fractures. Since the global measure of obesity (body mass index [BMI]) is often unknown in trauma patients, it would be convenient to use local computed...

Sep 5th, 2020 - Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree. Infrequently, after the onset of coughing, patients presenting with persistent chest pain are fo...

Aug 27th, 2020 - BACKGROUND. Costochondral junction (CCJ) rib fractures pose a challenge in the radiographic detection and dating of infant abuse. OBJECTIVE. To assess the temporal pattern of radiographic findings of CCJ fractures on serial skeletal surveys (SSs)....

Aug 18th, 2020 - Pain control is an important aspect of rib fracture management. With a rise in multimodal care approaches, we hypothesized that transdermal lidocaine patches reduce opioid utilization in hospitalized patients with acute rib fractures not requiring...

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...

Sep 9th, 2020 - 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 risk factors ...

Sep 6th, 2020 - There is missing knowledge about the association of obesity and mortality in patients with rib fractures. Since the global measure of obesity (body mass index [BMI]) is often unknown in trauma patients, it would be convenient to use local computed...

Sep 5th, 2020 - Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree. Infrequently, after the onset of coughing, patients presenting with persistent chest pain are fo...

Aug 27th, 2020 - BACKGROUND. Costochondral junction (CCJ) rib fractures pose a challenge in the radiographic detection and dating of infant abuse. OBJECTIVE. To assess the temporal pattern of radiographic findings of CCJ fractures on serial skeletal surveys (SSs)....

Aug 18th, 2020 - Pain control is an important aspect of rib fracture management. With a rise in multimodal care approaches, we hypothesized that transdermal lidocaine patches reduce opioid utilization in hospitalized patients with acute rib fractures not requiring...

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.

Dec 1st, 2012 - An 81-year-old African American man presented to the emergency department with right flank pain for 3 days. He had first noticed the pain after lifting a heavy box.

HOW TO DIAGNOSE A BROKEN RIB Signs and symptoms are unreliable but important Clinical symptoms do not reliably tell us if a rib is broken. 9,10 Nevertheless, the history and physical examination can uncover possible complications or associated inju.