Author/Editor		Avsec-Letonja, D; Zabavnik, Z; Letonja, S; Šeruga, T
Title		Bronchial rupture after blunt trauma
Type		članek
Source		In: Rafaj T, Rus-Vaupot V, editors. Proceeding book of 8th anaesthesia symposium Alpe-Adria; 1995 May 26-28; Portorož. Ljubljana: Slovenian association of anaesthesia and intensive medicine,
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 222-5
Language		eng
Abstract		Tracheobronchial rupture (TBR) is after blunt thoracic trauma uncommon injury. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in the past two years, at about 2 percent of all patients with blunt thoracic trauma, bronchial rupture was diagnosed. Diagnosis was made bronchoscopically. Indication for bronchoscopy is persistent pneumothorax despite adequate chest tube drainage, especially in mechanically ventilated patients. Diagnostical bronchoscopy should be performed only by well trained bronchoscopists. Successfull treatment depends on early diagnosis. The treatment of tracheobronchial ruptures must be performed surgically. In the ICU in Maribor, in the years 1993 and 1994, 94 patients after blunt thoracic trauma were treated, In two cases (2.1 percent), bronchial rupture has been diagnosed.
Descriptors		THORACIC INJURIES WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING TRACHEA BRONCHI RUPTURE