Determining which patients require evaluation for blunt cardiac injury following blunt chest trauma

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 108-111

  Nagy, Kimberly K ^a   Krosner, Seth M ^a   Roberts, Roxanne R ^a   Joseph, Kimberly T ^b   Smith, Robert F ^a   Barrett, John ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; CREATINE KINASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART INJURIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0035003822     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002680020372     Document Type: Article

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