ALLMedicine™ Rib Fracture Center

Sep 17th, 2021 - Opiates are frequently used in the inpatient management of chest wall injury following blunt trauma. However, the daily sum of opiates used during acute care, and the impact that additional injuries or rib fracture displacement may have on daily o...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - The erector spinae block is an efficacious analgesic option for the management of rib fracture--related pain. Despite there being minimal published data specifically addressing the safety profile of this block, many societies have made statements ...

Aug 28th, 2021 - Rib fractures are consequential injuries for geriatric patients (age ≥ 65 years). Although age and injury patterns drive many rib fracture management decisions, the impact of frailty-which baseline conditions affect rib fracture-specific outcomes-...

Aug 22nd, 2021 - Rib fractures occur in approximately 10% of trauma patients and are associated with over 50% of patients with scapula fractures. This study investigates the location and patterns of rib fractures and flail chest occurring in patients with operativ...

Aug 19th, 2021 - Rib fractures serve as both a marker of injury severity and a guide for clinical decision making for trauma patients. Although recent studies have suggested rib fractures are dynamic, the degree of progressive offset remains unknown. The purpose o...

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.