multidisciplinary approach to lifesaving measures in the elderly individuals with flail chest injury with orif of rib fractures
;Michael Zegg;Christian Kammerlander;Stefan Schmid;Tobias Roth;Ursula Kammerlander-Knauer;Markus Gosch;Thomas J. Luger
chinese journal of oceanology and limnology2012Vol. 3pp. -
135
zegg2012geriatricmultidisciplinary
Abstract
In this case report, we present 2 cases of flail chest in geriatric patients after severe blunt chest trauma, which were treated at the University Hospital Innsbruck (Level I Trauma Center and Tyrolean Geriatric Fracture Center) by a multidisciplinary team of physicians from anesthesia, intensive care, trauma surgery, and acute geriatrics. We want to point out the benefit of a multidisciplinary approach in geriatric patients with flail chest.