Disease Information for Flail chest

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• ▼ Demographics & Risk Factors
• ▼ Clinical Manifestations
• ▼ Laboratory Tests
• ▼ Diagnostic Test Results
• ▼ Associated Diseases & Rule outs
• ▼ Disease Mechanism & Classification
• ▼ Treatment

• Demographics & Risk Factors[next]

  • Established Disease Population
    • Patient/Motor vehicle accident
    • Patient/Multiple traumas/fractures
    • Patient/Trauma effect/occult injury

• Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]

  • Disease Progression
    • Course/Acute
    • Course/Acute only
  • Signs & Symptoms
    • Neck subcutaneous emphysema
    • Chest Pain
    • Cyanosis
    • Falling blood pressure/progessive/signs
    • Systolic crunch/mediastinal air (Hammans)
    • Crepitus, subcutaneous
    • Agonal respiration
    • Chest pain/non-cardiac
    • Dyspnea
    • Hypoventilation/sign
    • Rapid Breathing
    • Shallow breathing
    • Sudden onset dyspnea
    • Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
    • Acutely ill patient/signs

• Laboratory Tests[previous][top][next]

  • Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
    • pO2, arterial blood (Lab)
  • Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
    • PCO2, arterial blood (Lab)

• Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]

  • Other Tests & Procedures
    • PFT/Vital capacity decreased
  • Electrodiagnosis
    • Pulse oximetry/low O2 saturation
  • X-RAY
    • Xray/Chest abnormal
    • Xray/Chest/Lung fields/Abnormal
    • Xray/Mediastinal air/gas emphysema/Chest
    • Xray/Subcutaneous free air/Chest

• Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]

  • Associated Disease & Complications
    • Acidosis, respiratory
    • Acute respiratory failure/Respiratory arrest
    • Asphyxia/suffocation
    • Aspiration
    • Flail chest
    • Hypercarbia/hypercapnia
    • Hypoxia, systemic
    • Pneumonia, aspiration
    • Respiratory muscle weakness
    • Thoracic duct fistula/perforation
    • Atelectasis in Child

• Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]

  • Class
    • CLASS/Chest wall involvement/disorder (ex)
    • CLASS/Pulmonic (category)
  • Pathophysiology
    • Pathophysiology/Diaphragm/respiratory muscles defect
    • Pathophysiology/Extrinsic restrictive lung disease
  • Process
    • PROCESS/Trauma (category)

• Treatment[previous][top]

  • Other Treatments
    • TX/Endotracheal airway.
    • TX/Intensive care management
    • TX/Intubation/ventilation assist.

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