Chest injury

Chest injury
Chest injury
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

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.^[1] Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as direct, indirect, compression, contusion, deceleration, or blasts^[2] caused by motor vehicle collisions or penetrating mechanisms such as stabbings.^[3]

^ Andrew B., MD Peitzman; Andrew B. Peitzman; Michael, MD Sabom; Donald M., MD Yearly; Timothy C., MD Fabian (2002). The trauma manual. Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 203. ISBN 0-7817-2641-7.
^ Marini, John J., Dries, David J... Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials and More. 5th Edition. Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2019. Available from: Books@Ovid at http://ovidsp.ovid.com .
^ Feliciano, David V.; Mattox, Kenneth L.; Moore, Ernest J. (2012). Trauma, Seventh Edition (Trauma (Moore)). McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-07-166351-9.

[1] Andrew B., MD Peitzman; Andrew B. Peitzman; Michael, MD Sabom; Donald M., MD Yearly; Timothy C., MD Fabian (2002). The trauma manual. Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 203. ISBN 0-7817-2641-7.

[2] Marini, John J., Dries, David J... Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials and More. 5th Edition. Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2019. Available from: Books@Ovid at http://ovidsp.ovid.com .

[3] Feliciano, David V.; Mattox, Kenneth L.; Moore, Ernest J. (2012). Trauma, Seventh Edition (Trauma (Moore)). McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-07-166351-9.

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