Facilitating ventilator weaning through rib fixation combined with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in severe blunt chest injury with acute respiratory failure

Wu, TH; Lin, HL; Chou, YP; Huang, FD; Huang, WY; Tarng, YW

Tarng, YW (corresponding author), Kaohsiung Vet Gen Hosp, Dept Orthoped, 386,Da Chung 1st Rd, Kaohsiung 386, Taiwan.

CRITICAL CARE, 2020; 24 (1):

Abstract

Background Severe blunt chest injury sometimes induces acute respiratory failure (ARF), requiring ventilator use. We aimed to evaluate the effect of p......

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