Module 4: Thoracic Injuries
Segment 2: Thoracic Cage Injuries
Websites
How To Read A Chest X-Ray
Can you learn to read a Chest X-Ray from a comic book? This fun, easy, and FREE online course will show you how. (Radiopaedia)
Rib Fractures
Information regarding rib fracture imaging. (Radiopaedia)
Guidelines
Nonsurgical Management and Analgesia Strategies for Older Adults with Multiple Rib Fractures
The 2022 clinical practice guideline from EAST about the non-surgical management of multiple rib fractures in older adults. (Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (USA))
Blunt Chest Trauma Guideline
A clinical practice guideline for the management of blunt chest trauma from the UK's Midlands Critical Care & Trauma Networks. (Midlands Critical Care & Trauma Networks (UK))
ACS Best Practices Guidelines
American College of Surgeons Best Practice Guidelines: Management of Chest Wall Injuries (2025) (American College of Surgeons)
Videos
Flail Chest vs. Tension Pneumothorax
A paramedic describing flail chest versus tension pneumothorax. (The Paramedic Coach)
Flail Chest
A video showing chest wall motion in trauma patients with a flail chest. (YouTube)
WHO Mortality Database
A searchable database for global mortality statistics. (World Health Organization)
Injuries and violence
The incidence and impact of intentional and unintentional injuries across the age spectrum. (World Health Organization)
Provincial Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Report Card
Links to a variety of statistics related to the care of patients with traumatic brain injury in the Canadian Provinces. (Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation)