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Loss oftheChest Wall
muscle tearing
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45.1 Field Management ofChest Wall Loss andOpen Pneumothorax
Signicant loss of the chest wall occurs in a variety of trauma scenarios including high-velocity rie bullet penetrations, close-range shotgun blasts, explosions with secondary pro­jectiles, industrial mishaps, and impalements during a fall or vehicular crash. Many patients with chest wall loss do not survive more than a few minutes because of exsanguination from within the thorax and/or associated injuries. This chap­ter outlines the recommended eld, emergency department, and operating room procedures that will be effective in those patients who are discovered alive. A damage control opera­tive strategy with the goal of ultimate closure of the defect with minimal risk of infection and with preservation of as much of the chest wall’s mechanical integrity as possible will be described. These injuries in their severest form are rare, and therefore, no single surgeon has vast experience. Surgeons are thus encouraged to tailor these recommenda­tions to t the particular scenario.
Most patients with traumatic chest wall loss will be in acute respiratory distress from the incompetent pulmonary mechanics associated with the open pneumothorax. As the patient attempts to breathe, air preferentially ows through the defect into the pleural space, and the patient’s ability to inspire air into their airway and expand their lungs is greatly compromised. Lesser degrees of chest wall loss, e.g., an open pneumothorax with a chest wall defect 5–10 cm in diameter (Fig.45.1) may be tolerated for a short transport by an otherwise healthy patient, but for most patients, qualied providers in the eld should provide an airway and respira­tory support. Chin lift, jaw thrust, oropharyngeal or nasopha­ryngeal airways, and bag-valve-mask ventilation are effective temporizing measures until you can place an endotracheal tube. If the defect is on the left chest wall and there appears
J. C. Mayberry (*) Acute Care Surgery & Trauma, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID, USA e-mail: john.mayberry@sarmc.org; mayberry@slhs.org
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Fig. 45.1 Chest wall defect 5–10cm in diameter with open pneumo­thorax, comminuted rib fractures, intercostal muscle tearing, and under­lying pulmonary injury
to be a pulmonary laceration with air loss, attempt a blind right mainstem bronchus intubation (deep intubation) in order to exclude the severely injured lung from ventilation. This maneuver will not only prevent unnecessary air loss from the injured parenchyma and tracheobronchial tree but may also prevent venous air embolism. If endotracheal intu­bation is not successful, a multi-lumen esophageal airway and laryngeal mask airway are less desirable alternatives.
After airway management, examine the edges of the chest wall defect for signicant bleeding. Many experienced rst responders are capable of clamping an arterial or venous bleeder in the chest wall, assuming they have an appropri­ately sized clamp. It does not make sense to embark on a signicant transport to a higher level of care while an easily accessible vessel continues to hemorrhage. The chest wall contains numerous named arteries and veins, e.g., the inter­costal arteries and veins as well as the muscular branches of the subclavian and axillary vessels, any of which can exsan-
Comminuted
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guinate the patient. Any continuous bleeding during trans­port can lead to a coagulopathy that will be difcult to reverse even once the patient arrives at a hospital. Only the most obvious sites of hemorrhage should be clamped and not more than 3min should be spent under austere conditions. First responders would not be expected, however, to try to clamp a pulmonary laceration within the thorax or attempt to control a source of mediastinal hemorrhage. In the case of severe pulmonary or mediastinal bleeding, however, follow­ing airway control, the hemithorax should be tightly packed with gauze in the hope of at least slowing the hemorrhage.
You should cover the defect itself with a sterile or clean dressing, e.g., dry gauze, petrolatum gauze, or plastic wrap, and secure it on three sides only so that the accumulating pleu­ral air, e.g., from a pulmonary or tracheobronchial laceration, can escape from the pleural space. This measure will prevent the development of a tension pneumothorax and will also pre­vent further contamination of the wound from the outside.
Because these patients have a high risk of deterioration and will likely require immediate surgery, transport to a des­ignated trauma center should not be further delayed. During transport, a hypotensive strategy of resuscitation should be employed to minimize blood loss, dilutional coagulopathy, and pulmonary edema.
45.2 Emergency Department Management
For a patient with a larger and more destructive chest wall injury, the emergency department (ED) should be bypassed for direct transport to the operating room (OR). If an OR is not ready, ED management should be limited to life-saving procedures that cannot wait until an OR is available. For example, you can address exsanguinating hemorrhage from the edges of the defect, within the pulmonary parenchyma, or in the mediastinum. Hilar clamping and the pulmonary hilar twist are effective means of temporarily controlling pul­monary hemorrhage. Time spent in the ED can also be used to obtain a blood specimen for type and cross, to ensure ade­quate venous access, to obtain a chest radiograph, and to begin a blood product transfusion.
If the chest wall defect is smaller and hemorrhage is con­trolled, you can start a search for associated injuries in the ED prior to operative repair. In cases where the chest wall defect resulted from an explosion or a severe blunt mechanism, extrathoracic injuries may take precedence in the treatment plan. Head, neck, and torso CT scans may be indicated.
to the patient prophylactic intravenous antibiotic coverage for Gram-positive organisms. The rst operation consists of wound cleansing and debridement of devascularized skin, subcutaneous fat, muscle, and bone. If the defect involves only the intercostal muscle between two ribs and wound con­tamination is nil or very minimal, debride the defect and close it in a single operation. The intercostal muscle defect is closed by approximating the two ribs together with an absorbable suture, taking care not to entrap the intercostal nerve. The best way to approximate the ribs without nerve entrapment is to drill four holes in each rib and cerclage the two ribs together with gure-of-eight ties. Then close the skin over a bulb suc­tion drain.
If the defect involves comminuted rib fractures, tissue loss, and contamination, then at least two operations are nec­essary. Excise the portions of the rib that are partially devoid of muscular attachments because the de-vascularized bone will not survive and will later become a nidus for osteomy­elitis. If contamination is nil or minimal, a biologic tissue patch derived from the human or porcine dermis can be sutured circumferentially to the defect in the rst operation (Fig. 45.2). Such tissue patches provide protection to the underlying lung, effectively bridging the defect with a rm yet exible platform, and are less prone to infection than a nonbiologic prostheses. If along one of the edges of the defect, a rib fracture or even a comminuted rib fracture with a small tissue gap is present, afx an absorbable, polylactide fracture repair plate to the rib to provide a stronger edge to which to anchor the patch (Fig.45.2 inset).
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45.3 Operative Management
You can safely and effectively manage the smaller defect of 5–10cm in diameter (Fig.45.1) with minimal contamination of dirt and debris in one to three serial operations: Administer
Fig. 45.2 A biologic tissue patch derived from human or porcine der­mis is sutured circumferentially to the defect. If a comminuted rib frac­ture is present, an absorbable plate is afxed to the rib to provide a stronger edge to which to anchor the patch (inset). Partially de­vascularized bone should be excised
Pleural
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Fig. 45.4 Large chest wall defect, >10–15cm in diameter, with under­lying pulmonary laceration
Closed suction drain
Fig. 45.3 A vacuum suction dressing is placed over the biologic patch
Place an anterior 32 or 36 French chest tube, either straight or right-angled, to underwater seal/wall suction to drain air and uid that will accumulate. Dress the wound with a vacuum suction dressing over the biologic patch (Fig.45.3) for at least 2 and as long as 3days. The patient can be extubated postoperatively depending on the extent of the pulmonary injury and any associated injuries. The vacuum dressing can be expected to provide an adequate degree of chest wall stability for this smaller-sized defect.
At the second operation, examine the wound for persis­tent contamination or dead tissue that must be debrided. The surgeon decides whether an additional 2–3days of vacuum dressing is necessary or whether the wound can be closed by undermining skin and subcutaneous tissues and closing over a bulb suction drain.
The larger chest wall defect, >10–15cm in diameter, is considerably more challenging to repair (Fig. 45.4). Depending on the mechanism of injury, it is much more likely that a signicant pulmonary injury will be present, such as a large laceration, contusion, or intraparenchymal hematoma. You will have to manage this pulmonary injury simultaneously. Nonanatomic surgical resection may be nec­essary to control bleeding and air leaks (Fig.45.5). As in the smaller defect, you should commence immediately with wound cleansing and debridement of devascularized skin, subcutaneous fat, muscle, and bone. The defect resulting will
Fig. 45.5 Nonanatomic pulmonary resection with stapling device
seem formidable, but you can set up a good outcome by fol­lowing the basic principles of debridement and damage con­trol. In cases of a thoracoabdominal defect, the transposition of the diaphragm to convert the thoracic defect to an abdomi­nal defect should be considered.
At the conclusion of the rst operation, place a 32–36 French chest tube through an anterior stab incision into the pleural space and tuck a plastic sheet under the chest wall defect in the same fashion as described for an open abdomi­nal defect (Fig. 45.6). Pack the wound with moist gauze (Fig.45.6 inset) and apply a vacuum suction dressing. In this case, do not extubate the patient postoperatively since the
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Tucking plastic sheet into pleural space
Fig. 45.6 A plastic sheet is tucked under the chest wall defect. The wound is then packed with moist gauze (inset) and a vacuum suction dressing is applied
extent of chest wall loss will preclude effective, non-assisted pulmonary mechanics.
Depending on associated injuries, you should take back the patient to the OR at 2–3day intervals for debridements and surgical management of the underlying pulmonary injury as necessary. When the wound is clean and the pulmonary injury stable, a large biological tissue patch is sutured to the chest wall with absorbable suture in a similar fashion to the smaller defect shown in Fig.45.2. The wound is again dressed with a vacuum dressing and attempts are made to wean the patient from the ventilator. A tracheos­tomy may be indicated for ventilator weaning if, after 5–7 days, the weaning progress has stalled. When the patient’s pulmonary status is substantially improved and the wound is stable (7–14days), a latissimus dorsi vascu­larized muscle ap is used to ll the defect and cover the biologic patch (Fig.45.7). A bulb suction drain should be placed between the biologic patch and the muscle ap to prevent seroma formation and allow the muscle to adhere to the patch. A split-thickness skin graft will be necessary to cover the external surface of the muscle ap since the patient’s own chest wall skin will have been debrided very signicantly (Fig.45.7 inset).
Removal of drains should follow standard surgical prin­ciples of 200cc uid per day and no air leak for tube tho­racostomies and 30cc uid per day for bulb suction drains. You should tailor the antibiotic management to the amount and type of contamination, but in general, 48 h of Gram­positive coverage should be sufcient.
Fig. 45.7 A latissimus dorsi vascularized muscle ap is used to ll the defect and cover the biologic patch. A split-thickness skin graft is used to cover the external surface of the muscle ap (inset)
45.4 Recovery andRehabilitation
Patients with smaller defects repaired may have little func­tional loss of their pulmonary mechanics and should recover completely. They will always, however, be at risk for pulmo­nary hernia development over months to years that may need elective repair. Larger defects will require longer intensive care unit and hospital stays and more days on the ventilator. These patients will be at higher risk for pulmonary hernia development. Chest wall replacement with more rigid pros­theses should wait, however, for several months until the risk of prosthetic infection returns to that expected for a clean, noncontaminated, nontraumatic operation. If a tracheostomy is required, it can be downsized and eventually removed when the patient can tolerate tracheostomy plugging for 1–2days without respiratory decompensation.
Important Points
• Most chest wall loss patients will need immediate airway and ventilator control. If the defect is on the left chest wall and there is a pulmonary laceration, blind right mainstem bronchus (deep) endotracheal intubation should be attempted.
• Patients with lesser-sized chest wall defects, e.g., <5 or 10cm diameter, who are otherwise stable and coopera­tive, can be supported with intermittent bag-valve-mask ventilation during transport.
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• If able, the rst responder is advised to briey try to clamp intercostal arterial or venous bleeding or other chest wall muscular vessel bleeding from which the patient may exsanguinate during transport.
• Signicant pulmonary or mediastinal bleeding can be tightly packed with gauze and an occlusive dressing in the hope of slowing the hemorrhage during transport.
• In the eld, the defect is covered with a dressing and secured on three sides only so that the accumulating pleu­ral air can escape. This will prevent the development of a tension pneumothorax and will also prevent further con­tamination of the wound from the outside.
• For a patient with a large, destructive chest wall injury, the emergency department (ED) should be bypassed for direct transport to the operating room (OR).
• A destructive chest wall defect will seem formidable, but the surgeon can set up a good outcome by following the basic principles of debridement, damage control, and stage operations.
• Portions of the rib that are partially devoid of muscular attachments should be excised because the de- vascularized
bone will not survive and will later become a nidus for osteomyelitis.
• Biologic mesh should be used to bridge the defect because of the lesser risk of prosthetic infection compared to stan­dard prosthetic mesh. For a larger defect, a vascularized muscle ap will be necessary to ll the defect.
Suggested Reading
Lucas CE. Torso challenges for the acute care surgeon: techni-
cal solutions for large torso defects. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;74:17–25.
Mayberry JC, Terhes JT, Ellis TJ, Wanek S, Mullins RJ.Absorbable
plates for rib fracture repair: preliminary experience. J Trauma. 2003;55:835–9.
Schreiber MA, Meier EN, Tisherman SA, etal. A controlled resusci-
tation strategy is feasible and safe in hypotensive trauma patients: results of a prospective randomized pilot trial. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015;78:687–97.
Seder CW, Allen MS, Nichols FC, etal. Primary and prosthetic repair
of acquired chest wall hernias: a 20-year experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014;98:484–9.
Part IV
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Surgical Strategies in Penetrating Trauma to the
Abdomen and Pelvis
Access totheAbdomen: Emergency
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The emergency laparotomy includes tasks and strategies that are drastically different than the elective laparotomy. The surgeon is constantly ghting an unforgiving foe: time. A moderately longer operation has little effect on the outcome of a patient who is physiologically stable and not losing blood. On the other hand, every intraoperative minute counts on patients in metabolic disarray and hemodynamic collapse. Therefore, the entire philosophy of emergency abdominal access is dominated by the focus on minimizing time, while not compromising adequate exposure and technique. Standardization of tasks will prevent missed injuries, wrong procedures, or retained sponges, all of which are associated with emergency operations.
46.1 Position andPreparation
Always place the patient supine on the operating table. There is really no other choice. Left and right lateral positions may offer better access to specic retroperitoneal structures under elective circumstances, but do not allow adequate explora­tion of the entire abdomen and are time-consuming for open­ing and closing. If there is a suspicion that a thoracotomy may be used (as it may happen with a thoracoabdominal pen­etrating injury), then a pillow under the patient’s relevant hemithorax will offer enough area for an adequate anterolat­eral thoracotomy. Under emergency conditions, a posterolat­eral thoracotomy is not advisable.
Prep the patient from neck to mid-thighs. One never knows what cavity should eventually require access. A vari­ety of injuries, for example, require access to multiple areas: a thoracoabdominal injury producing signicant injuries across the diaphragm; a retrohepatic inferior vena cava
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injury, requiring total liver isolation and clamping of the intrapericardial cava through a sternotomy; a thoracic or abdominal vascular injury, requiring a saphenous vein graft for the groin; etc.
Similarly, the drapes should be placed in such a way that will allow access to multiple areas. A narrow surgical eld is the wrong principle for an emergency operation.
46.2 Incision
It is commonly suggested that the only proper way to explore the abdomen is a long midline incision from the xiphoid to the pubic symphysis. This certainly stands true for many cases. Nothing can be more frustrating for the surgeon and unsafe for the patient than trying to nd and repair injuries through inadequate exposure. On the other hand, the length of the incision correlates with postoperative pain and com­plications. Therefore, not every incision needs to stretch from top to bottom. I see little reason to extend an upper midline incision far beyond the umbilicus in a thoracoab­dominal wound with a clear high upper abdominal trajectory. Similarly, there is little justication for doubling the length of a lower midline incision made for a bladder rupture by extending it over the umbilicus. Having said that, you should have a very low threshold of extending an incision; if the exposure is inadequate, a satisfactory exploration cannot be achieved or the repair is compromised.
There is hardly any other incision for entering the abdo­men than a midline laparotomy for a traumatic emergency. Infrequently, there are reports of using subcostal incisions to access the liver or spleen for a subacute traumatic condition, as it would be with splenic necrosis and abscess following embolization for trauma. This is acceptable although the benets of the midline laparotomy are hard to match. In true emergency situations, enter the abdominal cavity in the fol­lowing steps:
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1. Incise the skin and subcutaneous tissue with the scalpel. Ignore the bleeding. Typically, if you place a gauze at the edges of the incision to retract the skin laterally, most of the bleeding will have stopped by the end of the incision. There is no reason to create a large thermal wound by electrocoagulating every possible small vessel (Fig.46.1).
2. Incise the linea alba with the scalpel. Remember that the linea alba is narrow close to the xiphoid and wide close to the umbilicus. Incise it rst in the immediate supraum­bilical area. With incremental cuts of your knife, extend the linea alba incision upward. Do not yet cut through the preperitoneal fat and peritoneum that lies under the linea alba (Fig.46.2).
3. Grasp the left side of the fascia with a Kocher clamp mid­way between the xiphoid process and the umbilicus, and with a gauze bluntly dissect the preperitoneal fat away from the overlying fascia moving laterally. You will real­ize that the thick fatty tissue lying under the midline tran­sitions to a thin and almost transparent peritoneal layer lying under the fascia laterally to the midline. You can usually enter the peritoneal cavity bluntly by pushing your digit through this thin peritoneal layer (Fig.46.3).
4. Under direct vision, incise the peritoneum up and down.
5. Insert your hand to protect the bowel, and with electroco­agulation, extend the incision below the umbilicus. As
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Fig. 46.2 Incising the linea alba with incremental cuts upward
Fig. 46.1 Skin and
subcutaneous tissue incision with the scalpel, while counter traction is applied on the two edges of the wound
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opposed to the supraumbilical midline, on which the fas­cia fuses in the relatively avascular linea alba below the midline, there is no linea alba and electrocoagulation will help in minimizing the bleeding from the muscle (Fig.46.4).
6. It is now time to check for any major bleeding from the walls of the incision. Usually, there is none, but if any, use electrocoagulation to control it.
If the operation is not a true emergency, more time can be spent to open the abdomen along with elective operation principles. In general, I dislike the attempts to control every small and temporarily bleeding subcutaneous vessel with electrocoagulation, as this causes an extensive thermal burn. If you place a gauze while retracting the edges of the wound laterally, the bleeding stops. At the end of the incision, you can electrocoagulate only the few remaining sites that con­tinue to bleed.
Fig. 46.4 With one hand in the abdomen, protecting the viscera, incise the muscle under the umbilicus with electrocoagulation
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46.3 Bleeding andContamination Control
The standard teaching is to pack the four quadrants as soon as you enter in the peritoneal cavity. I believe that blind packing is ineffective and unnecessary. Suction the blood that is in the abdomen and localize its source. Then, pack this area meaningfully to achieve temporary control. It makes little sense to pack the entire abdomen if the bleeding comes from the spleen!
Once you have packed, and with the bleeding controlled, make sure there is no other bleeding site. Often, there is more than one. You do not want to pack only the spleen when an insidious mesenteric tear continues to shed blood in the pel­vis and fail to discover it before a substantial amount of blood is lost.
Your focus now should shift to the control of contamina­tion. Have a quick look to check for perforations of any hol­low viscus. If there is any, control it by placing a Babcock clamp or a quick occluding suture.
With the bleeding and contamination temporarily con­trolled, it is time to return to the bleeding site. Unpack care­fully and check the extent of the injury. If there is something that can easily be repaired or ligated, then do so. Otherwise, repack, as your next step is to explore the entire abdomen.
46.4 Systematic Exploration
The exploration of the abdominal cavity should be performed systematically, following a routine that avoids missing inju­ries. I always start from the left upper quadrant and visualize the stomach, spleen, left diaphragm, and left lobe of the liver. Then, I move to the right upper quadrant, retracting the liver and visualizing its superior and inferior surfaces, the right diaphragm, the duodenum, and the hepatic hilum.
At this point, the assistant holds up the transverse meso­colon and the surgeon pulls all the small bowel toward the right side. This exposes the ligament of Treitz, and the explo­ration of the small bowel begins by “running” it segment by segment while ipping it over every time to inspect the ante­rior and posterior surfaces of it up to the ileocolic area. Then, the colon is inspected in detail all the way to the rectum and the peritoneal reection. The pelvis is checked for retroperi­toneal hematomas.
I do not routinely open the mesocolic ligament to inspect the pancreas and posterior surface of the stomach unless if there is a specic indication.
Missed injuries occur if the above routine changes or if the described maneuvers are not performed diligently. I list below areas that I have frequently seen to be inadequately explored, resulting in missed injuries:
(a) The diaphragms: The stomach, colon, and spleen on the
left side and the liver on the right side must be manually pushed downward in order to reveal the diaphragms. Injuries can easily be missed, particularly in the poste­rior portions of the diaphragms, if this is not done.
(b) The colon (particularly, the transverse colon): A small
perforation can be missed in an obese person with a large amount of fat tissue around the colon. In particular, omental attachments or the gastrocolic ligament may conceal a hole. Small hematomas close to the colon wall should be carefully explored. The gastrocolic ligament should be divided if necessary to look at the posterior side of the transverse colon. Upon appropriate indica­tions, the peritoneal attachments should be incised to check the retroperitoneal colon. In penetrating injuries, the rule is that there should be an even number of holes in the lumen of a hollow viscus. If the number is odd, search hard for the missing through-and-through perforation.
(c) The posterior side of the stomach: The rule of even holes
applies here too. If there is a perforation of the anterior wall of the stomach, open the gastrocolic ligament to inspect the posterior wall.
(d) The retroperitoneum: Although the retroperitoneal struc-
tures do not routinely require direct inspection, you should inspect the retroperitoneal areas and explore them as needed. As a general rule, retroperitoneal hema­tomas after blunt trauma should be explored if they lie centrally and left alone if in the pelvis or the lateral aspects. Retroperitoneal hematomas after penetrating trauma should be explored, unless there is a very high degree of condence that no signicant injury is present. There are exceptions to both rules. A blunt pelvic retro­peritoneal hematoma could be explored for a known transaction of a major vessel. On the other hand, a blunt retrohepatic hematoma that is stable may be best left undisturbed. Similarly, a penetrating injury to the lateral edge of the kidney that causes a lateral hematoma may be safely observed without exploration.
46.5 Closure
Close the midline laparotomy in a single layer. I routinely use a single, long, running monolament suture, starting from the lower end and nishing at the upper end. Having the left lobe of the liver under the incision when I am placing my last few sutures with limited visualization is much safer than having loops of the bowel. For this, I always end my fascial suturing at the upper side. I never use subcutaneous sutures and close the skin routinely with staples.