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Potentially life-threatening injuries Thoracic aortic disruption Traumatic aortic rupture is a co...

Rectum Approximately 5% of colon injuries involve the rectum. These are generally from a penetrat...

Renal and urological tract injury In physiologically non-compromised patients, CT scanning with c...

Learning objectives To understand: The importance of physiology over anatomy in the • management ...

Management The operative management of liver injuries can be summarised as ‘the four Ps’: /uni25...

Planned emergency thoracotomy Planned emergency thoracotomy implies an emergency thora cotomy per...

Investigation Routine investigation in the emergency department of injury to the chest is based ...

Junctional zones The key junctional zones are: ). /uni25CF between the neck and the thorax; /uni2...

Laparoscopy Laparoscopy or thoracoscopy may be a valuable screening investigation in physiologica...

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY Interventional radiology can be useful in the management of torso trauma...

Immediate life-threatening injuries Airway obstruction Early intubation is very important, partic...

INTRODUCTION Injury seldom respects anatomical boundaries, hence the divi sion of the body into ...

Emergency department thoracotomy or sternotomy Emergency department thoracotomy (EDT) should be r...

INDIVIDUAL ORGAN INJURY Liver Blunt liver trauma occurs as a result of direct injury . The liver...

INJURY MECHANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH TORSO TRAUMA Injury consistently traverses di ff erent anatomi...

Diagnostic peritoneal lavage Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is a test rarely used in modern-d...

Duodenum Duodenal injury is frequently associated with injuries to the adjoining pancreas. Like t...

EMERGENCY THORACIC SURGERY Emergency thoracic surgery is an essential part of the arma - mentari...

DAMAGE CONTROL Following major injury , protracted surgery in the physio logically unstable patie...

Damage control resuscitation The concept of damage control has been broadened to include the tec...