@article{ref1,
title="Penetrating thoracic injuries--a 10 year analysis of 179 patients",
journal="Aktuelle Traumatologie",
year="1994",
author="Schulz, C. and Sudkamp, N. P. and Khodadadayan, C. and Haas, N. P. and Neuhaus, Philipp",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="75-78",
abstract="179 patients with penetrating chest wall and thoracic injuries were treated at the University Hospital &quot;Rudolf Virchow&quot; in Berlin between 1982 and 1992. Most patients (72.4%) were successfully treated with closed tube thoracostomy alone. 33 (18.4%) patients required thoracotomy, 14 (7.8%) due to injury of the great vessels and 15 (8.3%) due to cardiac injuries. In 10 (5.5%) patients also abdominal organs were compromised, so that also a laparotomy had to be done. Seven (3.9%) patients died. All but one patients who died, died in the OR or within 24 h of admission. So lethality in the group of cardiac wounds was 44.6% (7 out of 15). This underlines the necessity of most rapid transport to the hospital in case of thoracic injury.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0044-6173",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}