Novel nomogram for predicting paradoxical chest wall movement in patients with flail segment of traumatic rib fracture: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Flail chest is a severe injury to the chest wall and is related to adverse outcomes. A flail chest is classified as the physiologic, paradoxical motion of a chest wall or flail segment of rib fracture (RFX). We hypothesized that patients with paradoxical chest wall movement would present different clinical features from patients with a flail segment. This retrospective observational study included patients with blunt chest trauma who visited our level 1 trauma center between January 2019 and October 2022 and were diagnosed with one or more flail segments by computed tomography. The primary outcome of our study was a clinically diagnosed visible, paradoxical chest wall motion. We used the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression model to minimize overfitti

SUBMITTER: Seok J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662329 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature