Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Rapid detection of pneumothorax by ultrasonography in patients with multiple trauma. | Available online http content 10 4 R112 Research Rapid detection of pneumothorax by ultrasonography in patients with multiple trauma Mao Zhang1 Zhi-Hai Liu1 Jian-Xin Yang1 Jian-Xin Gan1 Shao-Wen Xu1 Xiang-Dong You2 and Guan-Yu Jiang1 Department of Emergency Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Research Institute of Emergency Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China department of Ultrasound Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou China Corresponding author Shao-Wen Xu zmhz@ Received 28 Apr 2006 Revisions requested 22 Jun 2006 Revisions received 3 Jul 2006 Accepted 1 Aug 2006 Published 1 Aug 2006 Critical Care 2006 10 R112 doi cc5004 This article is online at http content 10 4 R112 2006 Zhang et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Early detection of pneumothorax in multiple trauma patients is critically important. It can be argued that the efficacy of ultrasonography US for detection of pneumothorax is enhanced if it is performed and interpreted directly by the clinician in charge of the patients. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of emergency department clinicians to perform bedside US to detect and assess the size of the pneumothorax in patients with multiple trauma. Methods Over a 14 month period patients with multiple trauma treated in the emergency department were enrolled in this prospective study. Bedside US was performed by emergency department clinicians in charge of the patients. Portable supine chest radiography CXR and computed tomography CT were obtained within an interval of three hours. Using CT and chest drain as the gold .
