Post-traumatic pneumonia

Post-traumatic pneumonia

Post-traumatic pneumonia (pneumonia after injury, P. posttraumatiqu) is a type of pneumonia that occurs as a result of prolonged lack of breathing or due to disorders associated with poor circulation of the lungs, developing after a few hours due to mechanical damage and subsequent ischemia of the alveolar walls. Post-traumatic pneumonia is also called acute pneumonia in those wounded in the chest. It belongs to the group of viral-bacterial pneumonias. Acute pneumonia occurs in 75-83% of cases in those wounded in the chest, and subacute pneumonia - in 25%. Those wounded in the abdomen constitute a group of patients with atypical (atypical forms of pneumonia) or aplastic pneumonia. Shell-shocked and mentally ill patients, as a rule, have a viral etiology of pneumonia. Pneumonia often develops 2-5 weeks after suffering a severe head injury.