Rib fractures occur in more than 10% of all trauma patients. 1 -3 Mechanisms of injury range from high-impact chest wall trauma to low-energy ground-level falls in the elderly. Fractured ribs can be ...

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Rib fractures are common after blunt trauma to the chest, accounting for 10% of hospital trauma admissions. Complications can be life threatening and can result from the initial impact, as well as ...

Geriatric patients reported lower pain scores for rib fracture than younger patients, contributing to the ideology that geriatric patients may underreport pain severity. A more nuanced approach to ...

• Traumatic mechanisms and fracture patterns were related to pulmonary complications in elderly patients with isolated rib fractures. • No significant relationship was found between chronic ...

Robert D. Glatter, MD; Sergey M. Motov, MD; Gary S. Schwartz Robert D. Glatter, MD: Hi. I'm Dr Robert Glatter, medical advisor for Medscape Emergency Medicine. Joining me today to discuss a novel way ...

Until recently, the only cure for a fractured rib was time - time that often involved a lot of pain as the break slowly healed. A new surgery recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration is ...

University Hospital Galway (UHG) has introduced a new surgical procedure for the treatment of rib fractures. The Convergent Biaxial 3-Dimensional (CB3) procedure is designed to make rib fracture ...

University Hospital Galway has become the first Irish hospital to introduce a “pioneering” surgical procedure for the treatment of rib fractures. The hospital has become the first in Ireland to ...