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  • Title: Use of a pectus bar for surgical stabilization of cardiopulmonary resuscitation induced flail chest.
    Author: Lee SK, Kim DH, Lee CH.
    Journal: J Card Surg; 2020 Aug; 35(8):2064-2066. PubMed ID: 32652795.
    Abstract:
    A flail chest can occur when cardiopulmonary resuscitation causes extensive rib fractures. Despite successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if the flail chest is not treated, the patient may not survive regardless of the correction of the primary condition that caused the cardiac arrest. Therefore, if flail chest persists despite the appropriate conservative management to correct the flail chest, active surgical management is essential. We present a successful surgical treatment with a pectus bar for a patient with flail chest, caused by extensive segmental rib fractures sustained during cardiopulmonary resuscitation for a massive pulmonary thromboembolism.
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