Emergency thoracotomy for thoracic trauma in the accident and emergency department: Indications and outcome

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 78, Issue 3 Part I, 1996, Pages 221-224

  Jahangiri, Marjan ^a,b   Hyde, Jonathan ^a   Griffin, Steven ^a   Magee, Patrick ^a   Youhana, Aprim ^a   Lewis, Terence ^a   Wood, Alan ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Thoracotomy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART TAMPONADE; HELICOPTER; INJURY SCALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0029901576     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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