Emergency room thoracotomy: Updated guidelines for a level I trauma center

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 421-424

  Ladd, Alan P ^a   Gomez, Gerardo A ^a,b   Jacobson, Lewis E ^a   Broadie, Thomas A ^a   Scherer III, L R ^a   Solotkin, Kathleen C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0036583331     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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