Improved chest wall trauma taxonomy: an interdisciplinary CWIS and ASER collaboration.
Jonathan NguyenKrystal Archer-ArroyoJoel A GrossScott D SteenburgClint W SlikerCourtney H MeyerMari T NummelaFredric M PieracciAdam J KayePublished in: Emergency radiology (2023)
The 2019 consensus survey from CWIS provides a framework to discuss chest wall injuries, but several concepts remained unclear. Creating a universally accepted taxonomy and nomenclature, utilizing the CWIS survey and this article as a scaffolding, may help providers communicate the severity of chest wall injury accurately, allow for better operative planning, and provide a common language for researchers in the future.