📄 Normal trauma AP chest view
PRIMARY TRAUMA OBJECTIVES (ABCDE)
1📄 Rapid assessment during primary survey
2📄 Identification of immediately life-threatening injuries
AIRWAY & BREATHING INJURIES
3📄 Endotracheal tube position
4📄 Tracheal deviation
5📄 Tension pneumothorax
6📄 Open pneumothorax
PLEURAL & AIR LEAK INJURIES
7📄 Pneumothorax (supine signs)
8📄 Deep sulcus sign
9📄 Hemothorax
10📄 Hydropneumothorax
LUNG PARENCHYMAL INJURY
11📄 Pulmonary contusion
12📄 Pulmonary laceration
13📄 Aspiration injury
MEDIASTINAL & VASCULAR INJURY
14📄 Mediastinal widening
15📄 Aortic injury (indirect signs)
16📄 Tracheobronchial injury
CARDIAC INJURY
17📄 Cardiac tamponade (enlarged cardiac silhouette)
18📄 Hemopericardium
SKELETAL INJURY
19📄 Rib fractures
20📄 Flail chest
21📄 Clavicular fractures
22📄 Scapular fractures
23📄 Thoracic spine injury
DIAPHRAGMATIC INJURY
24📄 Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture
25📄 Herniation of abdominal contents
FOREIGN BODIES & DEVICES
26📄 Bullet fragments
27📄 Shrapnel / penetrating injury markers
28📄 Chest tube position
POST-INTERVENTION ASSESSMENT
29📄 Post-chest tube lung re-expansion
30📄 Residual pneumothorax or hemothorax
LIMITATIONS & PITFALLS
31📄 Supine/AP projection masking small pneumothorax
32📄 Underestimation of mediastinal injury
33📄 Need for CT trauma protocol correlation
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