ALLMedicine™ Rib Fracture Center

Jan 11th, 2022 - We report the first case of a patient with myxofibrosarcoma (MFS) who presented acutely with a rib fracture and developed a rapidly expanding loculated hemothorax after chest trauma. The patient was taken to the operating room for evacuation of he...

Jan 1st, 2022 - Long-term quality-of-life after rib fractures remains understudied. We aimed to evaluate quality-of-life of patients who had rib fractures 1 year after discharge. We hypothesized that patients with rib fractures, even as an isolated injury, have s...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - The evaluation of all ribs on thin-slice CT images is time consuming and it can be difficult to accurately assess the location and type of rib fracture in an emergency. The aim of our study was to develop and validate a convolutional neural networ...

Nov 30th, 2021 - Traumatic blunt diaphragm injuries are a diagnostic challenge in trauma. They may be missed due to the increasing trend of non-operative management of patients. The purpose of this study was to review the rate of occult blunt diaphragm injuries in...

Nov 15th, 2021 - As care of the injured patient continues to evolve, new surgical technologies and new resuscitative therapies can change the algorithms that drive trauma care. In particular, the advent of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta ...

Nov 4th, 2021 - Aim 1: Given the novelty of the erector spinae plane nerve block and limited data from anesthesia literature, aim 1 is to obtain preliminary data regarding quantity of mean morphine equivalents received by control and experimental groups for an in...

Sep 27th, 2021 - Rib fractures are one of the most common injuries following blunt trauma, occurring in approximately 10% of all trauma patients. Rib fracture injuries extend across a broad spectrum of severity from a single fractured rib which may be sustained in...

Feb 9th, 2021 - Traumatic rib fractures are a common pathology in the trauma population. It is estimated that 10% of all trauma patients have rib fractures. The mainstay of treatment of rib fracture is pain control to allow for good pulmonary hygiene and function...

Sep 10th, 2020 - Erector spinae plane block has successfully been demonstrated to provide an efficient analgesia in patients with rib fracture, open thoracotomy, breast surgery. The present study is aimed to investigate the intraoperative hemodynamic responses, an...

Aug 7th, 2020 - Rib fractures are one of the most common injuries secondary to blunt chest trauma, and carry significant risk in terms of patient morbidity and mortality. Pulmonary complications resulting from these injuries include severe atelectasis with hypoxe...

Jun 3rd, 2021 - Despite a slight decline in bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with localized high-risk prostate cancer on long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), there was little change in clinical BMD status, according to an analysis of men enrolled i...

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 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.

Jan 1st, 2016 - Case A 76-year-old woman presented to the ED with right rib pain after tripping on a rug and sustaining a fall down the stairs in her home. The patient’s chart review showed a history of multiple falls over the past year, with injuries including l.

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.