BACKGROUND Predictors of mortality of chest trauma vary globally. We aimed to define factors affecting mortality of hospitalized chest trauma patients in Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates. METHODS The data of Al-Ain Hospital Trauma Registry were prospectively collected over a period of three years. Patients with chest trauma who were admitted for more than 24 hours in Al-Ain Hospital or who d...

Intracardiac foreign bodies may be caused by direct penetrating trauma, embolization from injury to another area of the body, or iatrogenically from fragments of intravascular access devices. Penetrating cardiac trauma commonly presents with a hemodynamically unstable patient necessitating emergent life-saving procedures. Missile embolization to the heart can occur after injury to systemic and ...

BACKGROUND Thoracic trauma is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. In this study, we present our 11-year experience in the management and clinical outcome of 888 chest trauma cases as a result of blunt and penetrating injuries in our university hospital in Damascus, Syria. METHODS We reviewed files of 888 consequent cases of chest trauma between Januar...

BACKGROUND It has been shown repeatedly that hospital-based mortality data do not capture the actual mortality rate in South Africa, as many corpses are taken directly to the state mortuary. METHOD A retrospective audit was conducted by reviewing all mortuary reports for the period 1 January 2010 - 31 December 2011. The data recorded included demographics, mechanism of trauma, and cause and s...

Introduction: Pneumocephalus is air or gas located in the intracranial cavity. Head trauma is the most common cause of pneumocephalus, with the majority of cases resulting from sinus and basilar skull fractures. A small number of case reports have been published describing pneumocephalus after cervical and thoracic penetrating injuries. To our knowledge, we report the first case of severe pneum...

Trauma is a significant public health problem, representing the third leading cause of death in the United States. Trauma is also the leading cause of mortality in Americans under the age of 40. With the widespread availability of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) in trauma centers, the traditional workup of trauma patients has changed. Blunt chest injuries are now frequently studied...

Background. Penetrating injuries to the chest and in particular to the heart that results in pericardial tamponade and cardiac arrest requires immediate resuscitative thoracotomy as the only lifesaving technique and should be performed without delay. Objective. To describe an external cardiac tamponade caused by massive tension hemothorax from penetrating injury of the left internal mammary art...

Trauma is an integral part of our society. That truth is reflected in the fact that about 100,000 children die of some form of injury in the United States every year. Since there is great need for prevention of these deaths the nature and distribution of injuries in chiidren is of primary interest. Study of thoracic injuries is particulariy important since they are a substancial source of cripp...

Pneumomediastinum is defined as the presence of air or other gas in mediastinum and also known mediastinal emphysema [1]. can be categorized spontaneous (SPM) traumatic. Traumatic pneumomediastinum caused by blunt penetrating trauma to chest, iatrogenic injury, such that produced thoracic surgery. Mechanical ventilation a common cause barotrauma pneumomediastinum. mechanical often considered ty...