Studies have found that up to half of people with flail chest die.

When several ribs are injured, this can result in a flail chest.

If you have flail chest, the broken area can't hold its shape when you take a breath.

All of the left-side ribs are broken, and six on the right side - a classic flailed chest.

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A flail chest does not move correctly because the muscles that control it do not function.

Flail chest is a serious problem that happens when three or more ribs are broken in more than one place.

Flail chest, penetrating injuries and bruising can be recognized by inspection.

Treatment of the flail chest initially follows the principles of advanced trauma life support.

Flail chest is a potentially life-threatening injury and will often require a period of assisted ventilation.

If you can't breathe normally because of pain or flail chest, you may:

Pulmonary contusions are commonly associated with flail chest and that can lead to respiratory failure.

The respiratory failure from the flail chest requires mechanical ventilation and a longer stay in an intensive care unit.

In emergency department presentations, approximately 30% of patients with extensive thoracic trauma have a flail chest.

Have a flail chest.

An accompanying flail chest increases the morbidity and mortality to more than twice that of pulmonary contusion alone.

A portion of the chest wall moving separately from the rest of the chest (flail chest)

Flail chest is invariably accompanied by pulmonary contusion, a bruise of the lung tissue that can interfere with blood oxygenation.

Oftentimes, a flail chest from rib fractures, rachitic deformity, etc. leads to respiratory compromise and pneumonia.

Deformed (kyphoscoliosis), rigid (ankylosing spondylitis), or flail chest.

Flail chest can also occur when ribs are fractured proximally in conjunction with disarticulation of costal cartilages distally.

Different types of diseases or conditions that can be experienced in the chest include pleurisy, flail chest, atelectasis, and the most common condition, chest pain.

When several ribs are broken in several places a flail chest results, and the detached bone sections will move separately from the rest of the chest.

Flail chest is a serious, life-threatening chest injury often associated with underlying pulmonary injury and is most commonly seen in cases of significant blunt trauma.

Provide care for the patient with life-threatening thoracic injuries (e.g., pneumothorax, flail chest, tamponade, myocardial rupture)