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Thoracic Surgery for the Acute Care Surgeon

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Injury to the thorax is present following both blunt and penetrating trauma and is the major contributing factor in approximately 75% of trauma mortality (Meredith and Hoth, Surg Clin North Am 87(1):95–118, 2007). The following chapter outlines the workup and management of the acutely injured lung, organized by mechanism. Herein, we discuss considerations and variables that enter into the decision-making process and describe various scenarios in which they are applicable.

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    Samuel P. Carmichael II & J. Wayne Meredith

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Carmichael, S.P., Kluger, Y., Meredith, J.W. (2021). Lung Injury. In: Galante, J.M., Coimbra, R. (eds) Thoracic Surgery for the Acute Care Surgeon. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48493-4_14

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