Pediatric Thoracic Trauma in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Conclusion: Penetrating injuries predominated and these children commonly required a transfusion. Mortality was inversely related to age. Children with a hemothorax or a concomitant head injury had significant increases in mortality. Children with thoracic injury as the result of a burn suffered the highest mortality. PMID: 29659947 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research