Prevalence of Chest Trauma at an Apex Institute of North India: A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Thoracic trauma forms one of the major parts of multiple trauma and is responsible for significant mortality and morbidity specially at younger ages. We carried out a retrospective study to assess the general spectrum of chest injury patients at PGIMS Rohtak in one year. Clinical details of the patients were recorded from their case sheets and were analysed with reference to their age, sex, mode of injury, severity of injury, treatment employed, etc. The majority of the patients could be managed by simple inter-costal drainage and thoracotomy was required only in few patients.