The pre-hospital management of life-threatening chest injuries: A consensus statement from the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Leech, Caroline; Porter, Keith; Steyn, Richard; Laird, Colville; Virgo, Imogen; Bowman, Richard; Cooper, David
• Is Part Of: Trauma. Volume 19:Number 1(2017:Jan.)
• Page Start: 54
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2017-01
• Subjects: Thoracic injuries -- injury -- chest -- pre-hospital -- emergency medical services; Traumatology -- Periodicals; Disaster medicine -- Periodicals; Wounds and injuries -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 617.1
• DOI: 10.1177/1460408616664553
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1460-4086

Abstract

'The pre-hospital management of chest injury: a consensus statement' was originally published by the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2007. To update the pre-existing guideline, a consensus meeting of stakeholders was held by the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care in Coventry in November 2013. This paper provides a guideline for the pre-hospital management of patients with the life-threatening chest injuries of tension pneumothorax, open pneumothorax, massive haemothorax, flail chest (including multiple rib fractures), and cardiac tamponade.