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BTK ABSITE 2023 - Trauma Part I with Dr. Matthew Martin

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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What Is the Cause of a Flail Chest?

For the standard dissection of the internal carotid, your treatment is usually an antiplatelet agent or anti-quagulation. There is now a role for endovascular intervention, and that would usually be for a pseudorannurism or an AV fish chilla. So let's keep on moving down the body and get to thoracic trauma. How would we define a flail chest? You have to have three consecutive ribs with fractures in two places that can create a flail segment. And what's the cause of that patient's hypoxia? The cause is just pain and not breathing well enough. If they had a widened median, mediastinum

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