Digital hand-held sonography utilised for the focused assessment with sonography for trauma: A pilot study

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 577-581

  Kirkpatrick, A W ^a   Simons, R K ^b   Brown, D R ^b   Ng, A K T ^b   Nicolaou, S ^b  

^a VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal injuries; FAST; Hand held ultrasound; Resuscitation; Sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PILOT STUDY; RESUSCITATION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RESUSCITATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0035512913     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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