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
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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
‘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.
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