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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rib Fracture"”.
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Implementing a Rib Fracture Management Pathway and PIC Scoring Tool to Reduce ICU Readmissions
… was to improve the management of patients with rib and or sternal fractures in a 413 bed Level I Trauma Center. The pathway included best practice guidelines paired with clinical expertise to reduce Intensive Care Unit (ICU) readmissions, costs, complications and length of stay (LOS). Analysis …
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Blunt Force Trauma to the Ribs: Creating Predictive Models
… biological profile. Blunt force trauma to the ribs is some of the most common trauma recorded in a medical examiner's setting, however the structural complexity of ribs make it difficult to move beyond descriptive documentation of injuries. The purpose of this study is to identify common rib …
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A Study of Imaging Techniques of 3-Dimennsional CT Diagnosis for Rib Fractures
Rib fracture is a common disease occurring in patients with blunt chest trauma and can cause variable complications. However, the sensitivity of simple chest X-ray for the diagnosis of rib fracture is not high and the use of axial CT images of multi-detector computed tomography make us to spend so …
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Characteristics of Thoracic Organ Injuries in Frontal Crashes
… investigation into the characteristics and distributions associated with thoracic organ injuries showed the heart and great vessels are the only thoracic organs that showed a significant reduction in the rate of injury with the inclusion of airbags. In vehicles with airbags, the thoracic organs …
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Characterization of Rib Cortical Bone Thickness Changes With Age and Sex
… overall economic cost. Of the thoracic injuries, rib fractures are extremely common; present in nearly 94% of severely injured belted occupants. Elderly occupants have increased mortality and morbidity associated with rib fractures. One factor that is thought to influence rib fracture that changes …
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A Biomechanical Assessment Of Canine Body Armor
… commercially available Point Blank canine armor. Fracture of the impacted rib occurred as a result of behind armor blunt trauma in the majority cases. Measured and calculated engineering parameters were not identified as significant predictors of rib fracture. Testing the backface signature (BFS) …
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Investigating the Thoracic Biomechanical Responses of Rear Seated 50th Percentile Male Anthropomorphic Test Devices and Post Mortem Human Surrogates During Frontal Motor Vehicle Collisions
… there were a larger average number of rib fractures in vehicles with conventional restraints versus advanced restraints. A multi-point deflection injury risk equation predicted injury the best. However the less censored rib fracture data that were obtained suggest that all three of the …