Educational Guidelines for Nurses' Competence Level Caring for Patients with Accidental Chest Trauma during Emergency Period

Abstract

Trauma is the leading cause of death worldwide. Approximately 2/3 of the patients have a chest trauma with varying severity from a simple rib fracture to penetrating injury of the heart or tracheobronchial disruption. Blunt chest trauma is most common with 90% incidence, of which less than 10% require surgical intervention of any kind (AbdelBary, Branscheid & Beshay, 2018) and (Ludwig & Koryllos, 2017). In 2015, Egypt’s road accidents recorded 14,548 condition resulting in 6,203 deaths, 19,325 injured and 19,116 damaged vehicles, according to a latest report in 2016 by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (Magdi, 2017). Thoracic injury is a common cause of mortality and major disability, and the leading cause of death from physical trauma after head and spinal cord injury (Huber, Biberthaler, Delhey & Trentzsch, Winter, 2014). The nurse must realize that the first priority