The treatment of flail chest injury.
Flail chest injuries are traditionally managed by long-term artificial ventilation, which in itself is hazardous and expensive. A more conservative therapeutic regime is described, and the results of this regime are compared with those following the previous traditional regime used in the Respiratory Unit, Royal Brisbane Hospital. The place of artificial ventilation in relation to spontaneous ventilation is redefined in the context of this new regime.
D006801:Humans; D007384:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Breathing; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009020:Morphine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D012253:Rib Fractures / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D014140:Tracheotomy
D009020:Morphine