Gastinger I, Recknagel F, Berszin S
Klinik für Chirurgie, Bezirkskrankenhauses, Suhl.
Zentralbl Chir. 1989;114(5):301-5.
Thoracic trauma was treated in 159 hospitalised patients within a five-year period, with polytrauma being recorded from 40 per cent of the patients. Application of thorax suction drainage proved to be the most effective first treatment for 50 per cent of all cases. Emergency thoracotomy was necessary in 7.6 per cent. The lethality rate recorded from these cases of thorax injury amounted to twelve per cent.
在五年时间里，159名住院患者接受了胸外伤治疗，其中40%的患者有多发伤。事实证明，胸腔闭式引流是所有病例中50%最有效的初始治疗方法。7.6%的患者需要进行急诊开胸手术。这些胸外伤病例的致死率为12%。
