{"title":"Life-threatening airway injury following blunt thoracic trauma.","authors":"Saman Pradeep","doi":"10.62474/sljt-txak2497","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Blunt Thoracic trauma is one of the common presentations to accident and emergency departments in local settings. Life-threatening Tracheobronchial injury is uncommon and carries high mortality and morbidity if left untreated. This Article describes a case of major airway injury following blunt thoracic trauma in a young male.","PeriodicalId":517947,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Trauma","volume":"307 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sri Lanka Journal of Trauma","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.62474/sljt-txak2497","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Blunt Thoracic trauma is one of the common presentations to accident and emergency departments in local settings. Life-threatening Tracheobronchial injury is uncommon and carries high mortality and morbidity if left untreated. This Article describes a case of major airway injury following blunt thoracic trauma in a young male.