Chest injury
A chest injury, also known as chest trauma, is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injuries account for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as direct, indirect, compression, contusion, deceleration, or blasts caused by motor vehicle collisions or penetrating mechanisms such as stabbings.
| Chest injury | |
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| Other names | Chest trauma, Commotio thoracis |
| A chest X-ray of a right sided pulmonary contusion associated with flail chest and subcutaneous emphysema | |
| Specialty | Emergency medicine |
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