CHICAGO - The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released new Best Practices Guidelines for the Management of Chest Wall ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a flail chest scored higher on every single variable when treated surgically with locked plate ...

Chest wall injury is common as a result of major blunt trauma (for example, motor vehicle accidents). It varies in severity from minor bruising or an isolated rib fracture, to severe crush injuries ...

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Using accessory muscles implies that the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) is decreased to 30% of normal, which is usually between 1.0 and 1.5 liters per second. In such cases, a sitting ...

The condition in which multiple rib fractures allow a segment of the rib cage to move independently from the main chest wall is called a flail chest. The effect compromises breathing and may be ...