Trans-mediastinal gunshot wounds: Are "stable" patients really stable?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1247-1250

  Nagy, Kimberly K ^a,b   Roberts, Roxanne R ^a,b   Smith, Robert F ^a,b   Joseph, Kimberly T ^a,b   An, Gary C ^a,b   Bokhari, Faran ^a,b   Barrett, John ^a,b  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE;

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ACIDOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; BARIUM MEAL; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PH; PULSE WAVE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA INJURY; TUBE; URBAN POPULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS; INJURY; MEDIASTINUM; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; TRIAGE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0036777780     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6522-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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