Treatment and progress of the fixation of ribs of flail chest / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Flail chest is the common chest trauma, which causes abnormal respiration and mediastinal swing affecting the respiratory and circulatory function after injury. Fixation of ribs of flail chest has been used for half a century, methods and equipment of which varied, and domestic and foreign scholars have verified its efficacy in clinical practice. This article summarizes its main great progresses.