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Table 4 List of complications

From: RETRACTED ARTICLE: The role of acute care surgeons in treating rib fractures—a retrospective cohort study from a single level I trauma center

Variables

Total complications (n = 23)

TR (n = 18)

CTS (n = 6)

Sugery/ implant related

6

2

 Hardware failure

3

1

 Wound infection

1

0

Prolong opioid use

2

0

Bone healing

0

0

Pulmonary

9

4

 Pneumonia

7

3

 Empyema

1

1

 Residual pneumothorax

1

1

Other

3

0

 Ischemic stroke

2

0

I ntracranial hemorrhage

1

0

  1. TR Department of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, CTS Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery