Thompson G A, Wilson T, Collins R E, Broadley J A
Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1982 Mar;64(2):117-20.
Patients with chest injuries requiring admission to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital over a period of one year have been reviewed. Good survival figures are possible when these patients are managed by general surgeons and anaesthetists once the initial traumatic insult and immediate resuscitation period are survived. Among the 54 patients admitted there were 11 deaths, of which 10 occurred within a few hours of the patient's reaching hospital. It seems unlikely that even with specialist facilities the outcome would have been different in these 10 patients. Provided that a combination of experienced surgical and anaesthetic teams supported by intensive care facilities are mobilised quickly enough the absence of specialised cardiothoracic expertise is not important.
对肯特郡坎特伯雷医院一年内收治的胸部损伤患者进行了回顾。一旦患者度过最初的创伤性损伤和即时复苏期，由普通外科医生和麻醉师对这些患者进行管理，就有可能获得良好的生存数据。在收治的54例患者中，有11例死亡，其中10例在患者入院后的几小时内发生。即使拥有专业设施，这10例患者的结局似乎也不太可能有所不同。只要经验丰富的外科和麻醉团队在重症监护设施的支持下足够迅速地行动起来，缺乏专门的心胸外科专业知识并不重要。
