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If you had to boil it down, what is chest trauma?
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Kinetic energy: Deceleration trauma, baro trauma, penetrating trauma. All of these are forms of thoracic trauma. They may result or not on life threatening situations depending on the kinetic energy transfer.
Answered 3/8/2012
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