• The American surgeon · Dec 1993

    Review

    Emergency thoracotomy with lung resection following trauma.

    • G T Tominaga, K Waxman, G Scannell, C Annas, R A Ott, and A B Gazzaniga.
    • Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine.
    • Am Surg. 1993 Dec 1;59(12):834-7.

    AbstractOver a 7-year period, 9443 trauma patients were evaluated with 2934 (31%) sustaining chest trauma. Of these, 347 (12%) patients required thoracotomy, with 12 patients undergoing emergency lung resection. Mean age was 23.1 years with mean Injury Severity Score of 32. Mechanism of injury was blunt in three (25%), gunshot wound in seven (58%), and stab wound in two (17%). Associated injuries included head injury in two (17%), intra-abdominal injury requiring laparotomy in four (33%), cardiac injury in three (25%), and great vessel injury in one (8%). Indications for operation included persistent hemorrhage in 11 and suspected tracheobronchial disruption in one. Non-anatomic lung resection was performed in five patients, lobectomy in three patients, and pneumonectomy in four patients. Overall mortality was 33 per cent: 20 per cent for non-anatomical lung resection, 33 per cent for lobectomy, and 50 per cent for pneumonectomy. All survivors fully recovered except for one patient with an associated head injury. Our experience supports the selective use of lung resection, including pneumonectomy, to immediately control hemorrhage and to impact survival in severe chest trauma.

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