Chest Trauma Surgery

Chest trauma accounts for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as motor vehicle collisions or penetrating mechanisms such as stabbings or fiream injuries. Patients can also have injury to ribs, sternum, collar-bone, lungs, food-pipe, wind-pipe or other organs. In chest trauma the patients can accumulate air/blood/ other fluids in the chest leading to breathlessness With over 20 years of experience in the field of thoracic surgery.