2020
DOI: 10.1186/s43057-020-00031-2
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Urgent surgical repair is pivotal in the management of major airway injury due to blunt trauma

Abstract: Background Blunt traumatic airway injury is a life-threatening injury in which urgent management is pivotal and this would come through improving our clinical management and diagnostic tools. Our objective was to emphasize the importance of early referral and urgent surgical repair of major airway injury. Results Records of 42 patients with major airway injury out of 17,520 registered thoracic trauma cases were reviewed over the past 15 years. Twenty-eight cases documented to have major tracheobronchial inju… Show more

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“…The risk of surgical complications such as anastomotic dehiscence or stricture have been reported to be reduced from 28.6% to 4.8% if repair is performed early. 10 …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The risk of surgical complications such as anastomotic dehiscence or stricture have been reported to be reduced from 28.6% to 4.8% if repair is performed early. 10 …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%