American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma Clinical Consensus Statement on the management of patients with rib fractures

Caroline Park, Division of Burn, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (ACS COT) (C.P.); Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (AAST) (A.C.S); Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (ACS COT) (M.B., S.A.S.); Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Burn Surgery, The Ohio State University (ACS COT) (J.R.C.); Department of General Surgery, University of Oklahoma (ACS COT) (A.C.); Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, Critical Care and Burn Surgery, Temple University Hospital (AAST) (C.L.J.); Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, (ACS COT) (B.Y.); Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Acute and Critical Care Surgery, Duke University Medical Center (AAST) (S.A.); Maine Health Institute for Research, Tufts University School of Medicine (AAST) (J.R.).
Alexander C. Schwed
Miloš Buhavac
Julia R. Coleman
Alisa Cross
Christina L. Jacovides

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