Emergency thoracotomy: Survival correlates with physiologic status

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 780-788

  Lorenz, H Peter ^a   Steinmetz, Barry ^a   Lieberman, Jeremy ^a   Schecter, William P ^a   Macho, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPERATING ROOMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SAN FRANCISCO; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0026762847     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199206000-00020     Document Type: Article

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