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Perioperative Care of Thoracic Trauma Patient

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Thoracic trauma may involve several mechanisms of injury, resulting in pneumothorax, hemothorax, pulmonary contusion, and rib fractures. Anesthesiologists dealing with trauma cases should be alert to diagnose and treat these – at times life-threatening – conditions and to offer effective analgesia.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Kemalettin Koltka

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    Mukadder Orhan Sungur

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Koltka, K. (2017). Perioperative Care of Thoracic Trauma Patient. In: Şentürk, M., Orhan Sungur, M. (eds) Postoperative Care in Thoracic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19908-5_19

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