RT Book, Section
A1 Jones, Jonathan
A1 Stearley, Seth
A2 Stone, C. Keith
A2 Humphries, Roger L.
SR Print(0)
ID 55750460
T1 Chapter 24. Chest Trauma
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Emergency Medicine, 7e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-0-07-170107-5
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55750460
RD 2024/04/23
AB Up  to  half  of  all  trauma  patients  sustain  some  degree  of  thoracic  injury.  Twenty  to  twenty-five  percent  of  all  trauma  deaths  are  directly  attributable  to  chest  trauma.  Thoracic  trauma  is  a  contributing  factor  in  another  25%  of  trauma  deaths.