Thoracic Trauma
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Thoracic Trauma
J William Finley, MD
Trauma Director
Providence Regional Medical Center
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Thoracic Trauma
• Fourth Leading cause of death– 150,000 Annual deaths
• Second only to head injury in cause of death– 25% of trauma related deaths
• Often associated with other injuries• Prevention Focus
– Gun Control Legislation– Improved motor vehicle restraint systems
• Passive Restraint Systems• Airbags
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Anatomy
• Thoracic cavity– Thoracic inlet – Diaphragm
• Contains a lot of important stuff– Heart– Lungs– Mediastinal structures
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Extensive Armor
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There is no perfect protection…
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It’s a Dangerous World
• Penetrating Injury– Low Energy
• Stab wounds
– High Energy• GSW
• Blunt Injury– Crush– Compression– Shear– Acceleration/Deceleration
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Spectrum of Disease
• Chest Wall– Contusions– Rib fractures– Flail Chest
• Pulmonary– Pulmonary contusion– Pulmonary laceration– Hemothorax– Pneumothorax
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Spectrum of Disease
• Cardiac– Contusion– Laceration– Avulsion– Tamponade
• Mediastinal– Great vessel – Tracheobronchial – Esophageal– Aortic
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Keys To Diagnosis
• Index of suspicion
• Injury association
• Clinical signs/symptoms
• Diagnostic imaging– Xray– CT– Ultrasound
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Basic Trauma Resuscitation
• Easy as A-B-C– A - Airway– B - Breathing – C - Circulation
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October 24, 2011
Thanks to Jonathan Holbrook, Tall Taurus Media, LLCReal Heroes Breakfast 2011
Snohomish County, American Red Cross
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Hemothorax
• Accumulation of blood in the pleural space• Serious hemorrhage may accumulate 1,500
mL of blood– Mortality rate of 75%– Each side of thorax may hold up to 3,000 mL
• Blood loss in thorax causes a decrease in tidal volume– Ventilation/Perfusion Mismatch & Shock
• Typically accompanies pneumothorax– Hemopneumothorax
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Hemothorax
• Blunt or penetrating chest trauma
• Diagnosis– Small to moderate
• Only seen on CXR or CT
– Large• May be diagnosed clinically
– Dull to percussion over injured side– Decreased BS on affected side– Decreased chest expansion
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Hemothorax
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Hemothorax
• Management– Placement of tube thoracostomy
• 36 French tube or greater
– Operative indications, thoracotomy• Initial 1-1.5 L blood• Ongoing 200-250/hr losses
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ED Thoracotomy
• Most surgeons hold a very pessimistic view
• Success rates vary• Overall success rate 4-
5%• The first successful
'prehospital' thoracotomy and cardiac repair was carried out by Hill on a kitchen table in Montgomery, Alabama in 1902.
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Why?
• Abysmal Success rate
• Exposes medical personnel to risk
• There are survivors
• The main determinants for survivability– mechanism of injury – location of injury– presence or absence of vital signs
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Mechanism of Injury
• Penetrating thoracic injury– Survival rate 18-33%
• stab wounds > gunshot wounds.• Isolated thoracic stab wounds causing cardiac
tamponade approach 70% survival• Gun shot wounds injuring more than one cardiac
chamber and causing exsanguination have a much higher mortality.
• Blunt trauma survival rates – Vary between 0 and 2.5%
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Location of Injury
• Almost all survivors of emergency thoracotomy suffer isolated injuries to the thoracic cavity.
• Cardiac injuries have the highest survival– single chamber > multiple chamber– great vessels and pulmonary hila carry a
much higher mortality
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Presence of Vital Signs
• Survival related to – Presence of cardiac activity– Amount of time since loss of cardiac activity
• 0% for those patients arresting at scene, • 4% when arrest occurred in the ambulance, • 19% for emergency department arrest and • 27% for those who deteriorated but did not arrest
in the emergency department1
1Tyburski JG, J Trauma 2000.
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Presence of Vital Signs
• Survival for blunt trauma patients who never exhibited any signs of life is almost uniformly zero.
• Survival for penetrating trauma patients without signs of life is between 0 and 5%.
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ED Thoractomy - Why?
• Release pericardial tamponade
• Enable open cardiac massage
• Occlude the descending aorta
• Control intrathoracic hemorrhage
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ED Thoracotomy - How
• Steps– Prep chest, generally left chest– Generous incision from sternal border to mid
axillary line– Down to intercostal muscles– Divide chest along upper margin of 6th rib– Spread ribs– Retract lung– Identify and incise the pericardium to release
potential tamponade
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ED Thoracotomy - How
• Steps– Recognize and repair any cardiac injury– Open cardiac massage using 2 hand
technique– Cross clamp aorta– Incision can be extended to right side of chest
(Clamshell)– Ongoing resuscitation– Closure in OR
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Posterio-Lateral Thoractomy
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Clamshell Thoracotomy
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Thoracic Trauma
• Can create dramatic injuries
• Keep to resuscitation basics A-B-C
• Involve surgeons early
• ED thoracotomy does have some survivors