Abstract
Thoracic trauma is a very common injury in small animal practice and most of them in need of emergency surgery. The main objective of the thoracic stabilizat...
Highlights
Thoracic trauma is a very common injury in small animal practice and most of them in need of emergency surgery
soon as possible. The aim of this report was to describe the use of a catheter needle
A dog with flail chest was admitted at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Summary
Thoracic trauma is a very common injury in small animal practice and most of them in need of emergency surgery. O trauma torácico é uma afecção muito comum em pequenos animais, chegando a 10% das lesões traumáticas [3], sendo que em um estudo realizado em gatos com trauma ortopédico, observou-se trauma torácico associado em 89% dos casos [2]. Após descartar a presença de lesão no parênquima pulmonar, introduziu-se, em um ângulo de 30o, um o mandril de cateter 20 G6 no segmento distal da sétima costela (Figura 1A).
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