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Why patients become hypotensive in flial chest?

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  #2

I don't know if flail chest can lead to hypotensition...but pt with flail chest got a huge trauma so probably there are some bleed going on and also aorta can be injured...so it is trauma = flail chest + hypotension


  #3

in flail chest there will be also loss of negative intra thoracic pressure which is one of the mechanisms by which the Venous blood climb up the veins.


  #4

Because of Pulmonary contusion +/- Myocardial contusion in the present of blunt trauma of the chest

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