Background The optimal method of pain control for patients with traumatic rib fractures is
unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of epidural analgesia on …

Background There is a paucity of data comparing effectiveness of various techniques for
pain management of traumatic rib fractures. This study compared the quality of analgesia …

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the risk of delirium in geriatric trauma
patients with rib fractures treated with systemic opioids compared with those treated with …

Introduction Achieving adequate pain control for rib fractures remains challenging;
prescription of alternatives to narcotics is imperative to curtail the current opioid epidemic …

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is beneficial in acute respiratory failure (ARF) caused by chest
trauma; however, NIV-related complications affect the efficacy. We evaluated whether NIV …

Background Rib fractures are painful injuries that are treated with aggressive analgesia,
which can include opioids. We sought to evaluate the patterns and predictors of opioid …

Background There is a critical need for non-narcotic analgesic adjuncts in the treatment of
thoracic pain. We evaluated the efficacy of intercostal cryoneurolysis as an analgesic …

Rib fractures are present in 15% of all traumas and 60% of patients with chest traumas. Rib
fractures are not life-threatening in isolation, but they can be quite painful which leads to …

The role of regional anesthesia in trauma care has grown substantially over the past few
decades. Rapid advancements in techniques involving high-fidelity ultrasound and an …

BACKGROUND Rib fracture scoring systems are limited by a lack of serial pulmonary
physiologic variables. We created the Sequential Clinical Assessment of Respiratory …